The small town in Asia Minor near which the defining disaster of the era took place in 1071 — where Romanos IV Diogenes took a weakened, mercenary-heavy army to confront the Seljuk Turks and was annihilated and captured. Brownworth frames this battle as the event that dispelled the myth of Byzantine invincibility and set in motion the collapse Alexios had to reverse.
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Episode 14 (2 mentions)
The small town in Asia Minor near which the defining disaster of the era took place in 1071 — where Romanos IV Diogenes took a weakened, mercenary-heavy army to confront the Seljuk Turks and was annihilated and captured. Brownworth frames this battle as the event that dispelled the myth of Byzantine invincibility and set in motion the collapse Alexios had to reverse.
“earlier near the small town of Manzikert in Asia Minor.”
“nobles, that the Emperor Romanus IV Diogenes had taken in 1071 to the town of Manzikert”
Episode 15 (1 mention)
“After the shattering defeat at Manzikert, he had rebuilt Byzantine power while being pressured from both the East and the West.”
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