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| | Battle of Dorylaeum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | 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, Bohemond'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 cite of the modern city of Eskişehir). |
 | | The Turkish were terrified by the sight of their camp in flames, and by the ferocity and endurance of the knights, since the knights armor protected them from arrows and even many sword cuts, and they promptly fled, abandoning their camp and forcing Kilij Arslan to withdraw from the battlefield. |
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