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Battle of Manzikert (1071)
On the Crusades map as “Manzikert”
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.
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- Battle site
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- Causes of the First Crusade (chapter 1 of Crusades)
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- The Crusades, 1095–1291
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