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Battle site · The Crusades, 1095–1291
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26 Aug 1071 — the Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan destroys a Byzantine army and captures the emperor. Within twenty years Turkish emirs rule nearly to the Aegean, and the road to the West’s crusade begins here.
This is one scene of Chapter 1 — Three Civilizations, One Sea in The Crusades, 1095–1291.
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