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  First Crusade
Alexius would not let them leave until the various leaders had sworn fealty to him, and had them promise to return to the Byzantine Empire any land they recovered from the Seljuks; these oaths would quickly be broken once the Crusaders crossed into Asia Minor.
Nicaea, capital of the Seljuk "Sultan of Rum" Kilij Arslan I[?],was taken in early 1097, and Kilij Arslan himself was defeated at Dorylaeum[?].
Almost immediately, an army from Mosul arrived to besiege the newly conquered city; on June 28 Antioch was successfully defended against this army thanks largely to the efforts of Bohemond, who claimed the city for himself as Prince of Antioch.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fi/First_crusade.html   (1119 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Dorylaeum
The see is mentioned as late as the twelfth century among the suffragans of Synnada, but must have been suppressed soon after.
Dorylaeum was taken and destroyed by the Seljuk Turks, probably in 1070.
It was there (1 July, 1097) that the crusaders won their great victory over the Turks.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/05136b.htm   (395 words)

  
 Dorylaeum - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Dorylaeum, ancient city of N Phrygia, Asia Minor, now in NW Turkey.
It was an important trading city of the Romans but later fell to ruins.
Many scholars hold that the modern Eskisehir is near the site, but the question has not been settled.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-dorylaeu.html   (251 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Battle of Dorylaeum
The crusaders had left Nicaea on June 26, with a deep distrust of the Byzantines, who had taken the city without their knowledge after a long siege.
The Turkish force, consisting of Kilij Arslan I and his ally Hasan of Cappadocia, along with help from the Danishmendids, led by the Turkish prince Ghazi ibn Danishmend, the Persians, and the Caucasian Albanians, numbered about 150,000 men according to Raymond of Aguilers (Fulcher of Chartres gives the exaggerated number of 360,000).
On the evening of June 30, after a three-day march, Bohemund's army made camp in a meadow on the north bank of the river Thymbres, near the ruined town of Dorylaeum (Many scholars believe that this is the site of the modern city of Eskişehir).
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Battle_of_Dorylaeum   (921 words)

  
 Dorylaeum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The two armies met in July 1097 near the town of Dorylaeum in Anatolia.
The crusader army was rather strung out along the line of march, with Bohemond and his Normans in the van.
Dorylaeum instilled a new respect on both sides for their enemies.
history.boisestate.edu /westciv/crusades/11.htm   (518 words)

  
 RE: Ancient wars that support Fomenko
The Battle of Dorylaeum took place during the First Crusade on July 1, 1097, between the crusaders and the Seljuk Turks, near Dorylaeum in Anatolia.
They had split into two groups: Bohemund of Taranto, his nephew Tancred, Robert Curthose, Robert of Flanders, and the Byzantine general Taticius in the vanguard, and Godfrey of Bouillon, his brother Baldwin of Boulogne, Raymond IV of Toulouse, Stephen, and Hugh of Vermandois in the rear.
On July 1 Bohemund's force was surrounded outside Dorylaeum by Kilij Arslan.
www.new-tradition.org /forum/showthread.aspx?m=41121   (528 words)

  
 Second Crusade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
On the 25th of October, 1147, the army was near Dorylaeum at a small river.
Because he was a king, Conrad continued to play a role in the Second Crusade, but the imperial army was annihilated and the Germans did not contribute significantly to what followed.
Englishmen and Flemings would straggle in from Portugal, Germans would participate, but after the loss at Dorylaeum, this was now essentially a French crusade.
crusades.boisestate.edu /2nd/06.shtml   (183 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Flavian of Constantinople
Flavian presided at a council of 40 bishops at Constantinople on November 8 448, to compose a difference between the metropolitan bishop of Sardis and two bishops of his province.
Eusebius, bishop of Dorylaeum, presented his indictment against Eutyches.
Flavian's death shortly afterwards was attributed, by a pious fiction, to ill treatment at the hands of his theological opponents.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Flavian_of_Constantinople   (521 words)

  
 St Flavian
In a council, held by St. Flavian in 448, Eutyches was accused of this error by Eusebius of Dorylaeum, his former friend, and it was there condemned as heretical, and the author was cited to appear to give an account of his faith.
On the day appointed in the last summons he appeared before the council, but attended by two of the principal officers of the court, and a troop of the imperial guards.
Pope Hilarius, who had been St. Leo's legate at Ephesus, had so great a veneration for the saint that he caused the martyrdom to be represented in Mosaic work, in the church which he built in ho our of the holy cross.
www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/FLAVIAN.htm   (1659 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The First Crusade 1096-99: Conquest of the Holy Land: Books: David Nicolle,Christa Hook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The sections on opposing leaders, opposing armies and opposing plans is adequate for a volume of this size, but the lack of any attempt to construct at least a bare-bones order of battle for the Crusaders is annoying (others have tried).
The centerpieces of the volume are the three 3-D "Birds Eye View" maps (the Battle of Dorylaeum, the Siege of Antioch, and the seizure of Jerusalem) and the three-color battle scenes (the Battle of Dorylaeum, the Battle outside Antioch and the Massacre in Jerusalem).
Without much reference to numbers (even estimates), the reader may not realize that the Crusaders lost about 70% of their troops in the course of these 28 months, or that they were usually outnumbered 3-1 or worse.
www.amazon.ca /First-Crusade-1096-99-Conquest-Holy/dp/1841765155   (2154 words)

  
 Outremer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Egyptian army was completely routed and the Crusaders looted the camp.
Ascalon was as important a victory as Dorylaeum had been.
The Crusaders had defeated Turkish armies twice (Dorylaeum and Antioch), and now had defeated the Egyptians as well.
crusades.boisestate.edu /Outremer/02.shtml   (256 words)

  
 HERESIES
Flavian, who succeeded Proclus in 447 as archbishop, convened a synod in Constantinople on Nov. 8, 448, to consider some questions between the metropolitan of Sardis and two of his suffragan bishops.
Eusebius of Dorylaeum was present, and at its conclusion complained that Eutyches defamed "the holy Fathers and himself, a man who had never been suspected of heresy," alleging himself prepared to convict Eutyches of being untrue to the orthodox faith.
During the first session the secretaries read the documents descriptive of the introduction of Eutyches at the synod of Ephesus (the Latrocinium) and the reading of his paper.
www.voxdeibaptist.org /Eutychianism.htm   (3813 words)

  
 To Dorylaeum
The Republic is most loathe to send anyone away from home, and as long as our Friends and Allies remain such, and do not require our aid or involvement, we let them be.
I appreciate that Dorylaeum has no experience with Rome, and seeks independence.
You may become Friends and Allies of Rome, and pay 7% tribute to Rome; in return Rome will merely act as a guarantor of Dorylaeum's independance, and will not interfere beyond that.
www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/370953   (310 words)

  
 The First Crusade (2): The Road to Antioch
The loss of Nicaea enraged the Turkish sultan, Kilij Arslan, who had been absent in the east.
His army met that of the Christians at Dorylaeum in central Turkey.
The battle could have gone either way; the crusaders marched in two columns, and the first column, coming under attack from the Turks, was nearly routed before the second arrived and won the day.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/crusades/83125/2   (204 words)

  
 Eskishehir Photo Gallery by Dick Osseman at pbase.com
Eskişehir is a medium-sized city to the South East of Bursa and the last major stop before Ankara.
Britt.: Lying near the site of the ancient Phrygian city of Dorylaeum, the present city probably began in Byzantine times as a cluster of settlements around hot springs.
The scene of a Crusader victory over the Seljuq Turks in 1097, it came under Ottoman control near the end of the 13th century.
www.pbase.com /dosseman/eskisehir   (954 words)

  
 The Crusades History: Sword and Scimitar: Battling for God and Allah | The Way People Live
Certainly if they had always been firm in Christianity and had been willing to confess the articles of our creed, no man would have found stronger or braver men, or more skilled in warfare; yet, by God's grace, our men had the upper hand.
The crusaders next defeated Kilij Arslan's Turks at the Battle of Dorylaeum on July 1, 1097, thereby opening the route to Antioch.
According to Peter the Monk, a scholarly French monk of St. Remy, Kilij Arslan attributed his defeat at Dorylaeum to men
www.bookrags.com /history/the-crusades/07.html   (655 words)

  
 Dorylaeum
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In the process they split into two groups, probably because of the sheer size of the army, and Arslan took advantage of the situation to ambush the vanguard near Dorylaeum.
Bohemond, Hugh of Vermandois, and Count Stephen of Blois now faced the combined armies of Kilij Arslan and the Danishmend Emir.
www.medievaltymes.com /courtyard/dorylaeum.htm   (169 words)

  
 Events of the Dark Ages
Urban gained a lot of support by telling the perspective fighters that they would receive spiritual rewards.
On the way to Jerusalem, the crusaders (Or pilgrims as they were called back in those days) would gain control of Constantinople, Dorylaeum, Antioch and many other small territories.
But, With the help of italian reinforcements They would take over the muslim controlled Jerusalem.
plaza.ufl.edu /raven99/project2/EventDark.html   (912 words)

  
 BURYING THE DEAD AFTER THE BATTLE OF DORYLAEUM
BURYING THE DEAD AFTER THE BATTLE OF DORYLAEUM
URYING THE DEAD AFTER THE BATTLE OF DORYLAEUM
The day after the victory the Crusaders repaired to the field of battle for the for the purpose of burying the dead.
www.historyofthecrusades.com /ill-16.html   (235 words)

  
 Lex Aemilia Dorylaeum Foedus
AncientWorlds > Rome > Groups > Imperium > Assembly > DLXI - Assembly archive > Lex Aemilia Dorylaeum Foedus
"Quirites, I put before you for ratification the treaty negotiated by Proconsul Scaurus with the city of Dorylaeum.
That Dorylaeum shall be a Friend of Rome, paying seven per centum tribute; in return Rome shall recognize Dorylaeum as an independent ally and will assist in providing military security."
www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/375666   (142 words)

  
 Crusade Chronology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
End of Apr, 1097: First Crusade began the march in Anatolia to Nicaea
Late June, 1097: First Crusaders marched overland from Nicaea toward Dorylaeum
Oct 21, 1097: Crusaders arrived before Antioch; long, bitter siege ensued
people.westminstercollege.edu /faculty/mmarkowski/sscle/ssclechr.html   (930 words)

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