The Battle of Manzikert was in AD 1071. In this battle, the Seljuk Turks defeated the Byzantine Empire, thereby kicking them out of Anatolia. Most scholars agree that the result of the battle played a role in the calling of the Crusades. The First Crusade was originally started due to the Byzantine emperor's request for military assistance.
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| - The Battle of Manzikert was in AD 1071. In this battle, the Seljuk Turks defeated the Byzantine Empire, thereby kicking them out of Anatolia. Most scholars agree that the result of the battle played a role in the calling of the Crusades. The First Crusade was originally started due to the Byzantine emperor's request for military assistance.
- The Battle of Manzikert was fought between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuq Turks on August 26, 1071 near Manzikert (modern Malazgirt in Muş Province, Turkey). The decisive defeat of the Byzantine army and the capture of the Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes played an important role in undermining Byzantine authority in Anatolia and Armenia, and allowed for the gradual Turkification of Anatolia.
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| - In this 15th-century French miniature depicting the Battle of Manzikert, the combatants are clad in contemporary Western European armour.
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- Killed: 2000 to 8,000
* nearly the entire Varangian Guard
* 2,000 Turkish mercenaries who remained loyal
Captured: 4000
Deserted: 20,000 to 35,000
*mainly Frankish and Norman mercenaries who avoided almost the entire battle
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| - Great Seljuk Empire
* Pecheneg and Cuman mercenariesref|Pechenegs and Cumans defected to the Seljuq side when the war began.|group="note"
- Byzantine Empire
* Frankish, English, Norman, Georgian, Armenian, Bulgarian, Turkic Pecheneg and Cuman mercenaries
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| - near Manzikert, Byzantine Armenia
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| - The Battle of Manzikert was in AD 1071. In this battle, the Seljuk Turks defeated the Byzantine Empire, thereby kicking them out of Anatolia. Most scholars agree that the result of the battle played a role in the calling of the Crusades. The First Crusade was originally started due to the Byzantine emperor's request for military assistance.
- The Battle of Manzikert was fought between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuq Turks on August 26, 1071 near Manzikert (modern Malazgirt in Muş Province, Turkey). The decisive defeat of the Byzantine army and the capture of the Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes played an important role in undermining Byzantine authority in Anatolia and Armenia, and allowed for the gradual Turkification of Anatolia. The brunt of the battle was borne by the professional soldiers from the eastern and western tagmata, as large numbers of mercenaries and Anatolian levies fled early and survived the battle. The fallout from Manzikert was disastrous for the Byzantines, resulting in civil conflicts and an economic crisis that severely weakened the Byzantine Empire's ability to adequately defend its borders. This led to the mass movement of Turks into central Anatolia—by 1080, an area of had been gained by the Seljuk Turks. It took three decades of internal strife before Alexios I Komnenos (1081 to 1118) restored stability to Byzantium. Historian Thomas Asbridge says: "In 1071, the Seljuqs crushed an imperial army at the Battle of Manzikert (in eastern Asia Minor), and though historians no longer consider this to have been an utterly cataclysmic reversal for the Greeks, it still was a stinging setback."
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