Everything about Battle Of Philomelion totally explained
Following the success of the
First Crusade and the failure of the
Crusade of 1101, the Turks resumed their offensive operations against the
Byzantines. Emperor
Alexios I Komnenos, aged and suffering from an illness which proved to be terminal was unable to deal with the swift Turkish raids into what was left of Byzantine Anatolia. An attempt to take Nicaea in 1113 was thwarted by the Byzantines. Nonetheless in the aftermath of the Frankish invasions much land was re-consolidated by the
Seljuk Turks under the centralized authority of Iconium where the
Sultanate of Rum had established itself under Sultan
Malik Shahr. Events of the battle are unclear but it appears to have ended favorably for the Byzantines.
Aftermath
Alexios was nearing death - his ill condition meant that he couldn't fight the Sultan until a year after he'd set out in 1116. Alexios' death in 1118 meant that the reconquest of Asia Minor would have to be left to his 31 year old son,
John II Komnenos.
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