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Siege of Nicaea (1097)
Jun 1097 — the crusaders win their first success at the Seljuk capital, Nicaea. But the city surrenders to the Byzantine emperor under a secret arrangement. The Franks lose the plunder they expected, and distrust takes root between the allies.
When Jun 1097 Type Battle site Chapter First Crusade (chapter 2 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 · Cambridge University Library — A Fatimid Interoffice Memo about the Franks
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 Marina Rustow, Alan Elbaum and Paul M. Cobb, 2026. Facts consulted; no image or prose copied Tripoli remains outside Crusader control in 1099. Its active legacy zone is suppressed for this state and appears in later dated chapters after 1109.
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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