By Topwar
After the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, nothing seems to have changed. Alive and not in captivity were all the commanders of the Roman Empire. But after the death of the blinded commander-emperor Roman IV Diogenes, it turned out that no one could organize a defense and no one was ready to do it.
But the Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan considered that he owed nothing to the new emperor, unlike Roman Diogenes, and ordered the emirs and beys to launch attacks on Byzantium. And two years later, the Seljuks or detachments of akynzhy (raiders) reached the sea coast. The Turks captured some cities, some passed from hand to hand. Somewhere emirs sat down, somewhere cities fought off Seljuk emirs. Asia Minor has become a battlefield. But the same thing happened on the northern border, where the Pechenegs raged:
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