crusade
1453: Conquest of Constantinople
... politics. Up until that point European Christendom had, for 3 centuries, striven to evict Muslims from Asia Minor, with Istanbul functioning as a border station for the Crusaders. After the conquest, however, ...
Byzantine Empire
... IV 1204 Alexius V, Dukas Latin Emperors (Crusaders) 1204–05 Baldwin I 1205–16 Henry VI 1216–17 Peter de Courtenay 1218–28 Robert de Courtenay 1228–61 Baldwin II Nicaean ...
Bodrum (Halicarnassus)
... the Ancient World. In the harbor, the Bodrum Castle, or the medieval castle of St. Peter, is a fine example of 15th century crusader architecture, and has been converted into the Museum of Underwater Archeology, ...
Pisidian Antioch
... essential events put Pisidian Antioch on the map of history once more. The first was the arrival of the crusader army, which took refuse here after its defeat via the Seljuks at Eskisehir in 1097. The ...
Yildirim Bayezit
... Hatun. He was well educated and became the governor of Kayseri in 1381. He was a warlike and fierce commander, fought very well in Kosovo against the Crusaders where his father was killed via a Serbian ...
The Seljuk Turks
... begun, unable to cope with the pressures from the Crusaders, the caliph and recent Turcoman clans arriving from the east due to the increasing power of the Mongols, who were soon to erupt from the deepest ...
Muslim sects
... and Muslim leaders during the Crusades and gave Europe the word assassin (corruption of Hashish, which was used in their rituals). However, the fortunes of the Shi`i were very precarious until their ...
The Ottomans and their dynasty
... social infrastructure of the West and bring about the downfall of Christendom. Such a momentous threat could not be ignored and the Europeans mounted crusades against the Ottomans in 1366, 1396, and 1444, ...
Pamphylia
... attachment to Mithraism made it particularly difficult for the early Christians to gain general acceptance of their recent religion. As a consequence the Crusaders set up numerous small Christian enclaves, ...
Justinian I
... Apostles in today's Fatih district, which was plundered via the Crusaders and later destroyed via earthquakes. ...
Cilicia
... AD via the Arabs sweeping up from the south. The Armenian kingdom of Cilicia (until 1375, Little Armenia) started to develop in the late 11th century with support from the Crusaders after 1199, and Armenians ...
Kilis
... to the County of Urfa during the Crusades and subsequently lived under the Seljuks and Mamelukes. It was finally annexed via the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Yavuz Sultan Selim. Early in this century, ...
Konya
... no results. Konya's real meeting with and adopting of Islam began some time after the victory of Seljuks at Malazgirt in 1071, in the time of Kutalmisoglu Suleyman. The attacks of the Crusaders from 1076 ...
The Holy Koran
... the Crusaders' enemy. From the 18th century and up until now, the Koran has been translated into most western languages, and with a steadily increasing quality. Today most Muslims endorse this effort, ...
Iskenderun
... II and Persians in 330 BC. In nearby Osmaniye there is a fortress at Toprakkale built via the Crusaders which is still impressive. Nearby Iskenderun is Yakacik (Poyas) which preserves a splendid example ...
Istanbul’s castles, towers and columns
... made to his grand father Basileus I. Unfortunately all bronze slabs were removed during the rule of the 4th Crusade who melted them to make coins and weapons, therefore none of them survived until our ...
History of Istanbul
... location for trade and transport between 3 continents, was also its nemesis. For the next several hundred years Persians, Arabs, nomadic peoples, and members of the Fourth Crusade (who for a time governed ...
Hatay
... by Muslim Arabs and later via Turks. In 1097, after a siege of nine months the city fell to the Crusaders. Several times Muslim armies tried unsuccessfully to retake the city until it was recaptured via ...
History
... Revolt , The Crusades Turkish Origins Turkish origins , Turkish States , The Seljuk Turks , The Medieval madrasa Ottoman Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye) The Ottomans and their dynasty , The Ottoman ...