Battle of Antioch on the Meander
Battle of Antioch on the Meander
Part of: Byzantine-Seljuk Wars
| date | 1211 |
|---|---|
| place | Antioch on the meander |
| output | decisive victory of Nikaia |
| Parties to the conflict | |
|---|---|
| Commander | |
| Troop strength | |
| 2,000 foot soldiers , 2,000 horsemen (including 800 Latin mercenaries ) | considerably larger |
| losses | |
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heavy |
heavy |
Battles of the Byzantine-Seljuk Wars
The Battle of Antioch (also Battle of Alaşehir ) in 1211 was a military confrontation between the troops of the Nikaia Empire and the Turkish Sultanate of the Rum Seljuks . It took place at Antioch on the meander in Caria , near today's Kuyucak .
The heavy defeat of the Turks ensured the permanent hegemony of Nicaia over the Aegean coast of Asia Minor . Sultan Kai Chosrau I fell on the battlefield, the Byzantine emperor in exile Alexios III supported by him . was captured by his son-in-law Theodor I. Laskaris .
swell
- Georgios Akropolites 1, 16 (ed.August Heisenberg )
- Nikephoros Gregoras 1, 18–19 (ed. Ludwig Schopen )
literature
- Michael Angold: A Byzantine Government in Exile: Government and Society under the Laskarids of Nicaea, 1204-1261 . Oxford University Press, London 1975, ISBN 0-19-821854-0 , pp. 182-183 and passim .
- Alexis GC Savvides: Acropolites and Gregoras on the Byzantine-Seljuk confrontation at Antioch-on-the Maeander (AD 1211). English translation and commentary. In: Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakhltesi Tarih Bölümü Tarih Araştırmaları Dergisi 15 (26), 1991, pp. 93-101 ( PDF , 528 kB).
- Alexis GC Savvides: Byzantium in the Near East: Its Relations with the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum in Asia Minor, the Armenians of Cilicia and the Mongols, AD c. 1192-1237. (= Βυζαντινά Κείμενα και Μελέται. Vol. 17). Κέντρον Βυζαντινών Ερευνών, Θεσσαλονίκη 1981, pp. 96-111.