The Battle of Antioch-on-the-Meander, AD1211: The Battle that Saved an Empire

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Published on May 26, 2023 11:00:04 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZq4WcKHIOI

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The epic clash between the Sultanate of Rum and the Nicaean Empire was brought to a head by the ambitions of Alexios III Angelos in an attempt to retake his throne from Theodore I Laskaris using the help of his friend Kaykhusraw I.

Bibliography:
Primary Sources
George Akropolites, History, translated by R. Macrides, (2007).
Ibn Bibi, History, edited by H. Duda, Die Seltschukengeschichte des Ibn Bibi, (1959).
Nikephoros Gregoras, History edited by I. Bekker and L. Schopen, Vols. III, (1829-1855).
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Simon of Saint-Quentin, History of the Tartars, translated by S. Pow, T. Kiss, A. Romsics, F. Ghazaryan, (2019).

Scholarship
Angelov, D. (2019) The Byzantine Hellene: The Life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris and Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century, Cambridge.
Angold, M. (1975) A Byzantine Government in Exile: Government and Society Under the Laskarids of Nicaea (1204-1261), Oxford.
Bartusis, M. C. (1992) The Late Byzantine Army and Society, 1204 - 1453, Philodelphia.
Gardner, A. (1912) The Laskarids of Nicaea: The Story of an Empire in Exile
– Reprint (1964), Amsterdam.

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