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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 at Manzikert and captures the emperor. Within twenty years, Turkish emirs rule almost as far west as the Aegean. The defeat opens the road that will lead to the West’s crusade.
When 26 Aug 1071 Type Battle site Chapter Causes of the First Crusade (chapter 1 of Crusades)Atlas The Crusades, 1095–1291 BATTLE SITE · THE CRUSADES, 1095–1291 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — historical political boundaries · Simon Barton — Crusading in Iberia, c. 1060–1212 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art — The Crusades (1095–1291) · Natural Earth — physical reference geography · OpenStax — The Crusading Movement
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Dated polygons selected; local transfers and shared frontier edges derived with documented historical event corrections. Simon Barton, The Cambridge History of the Crusades. Published summary consulted for dated conquests; no map copied Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, 2014. Facts consulted; no prose or image copied Natural Earth. Public domain OpenStax, World History Volume 1. CC BY 4.0 At some ports, source coastlines have offsets of several kilometers at their resolution. The original polygons are preserved, and the review record gives explicit coastal anchor tolerances.
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