15.1 The Battle of Manzikert 1071

A History of Europe, Key Battles

Carl Rylett

History

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🗓️ 29 March 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In 1071 the Byzantine Empire, weakened by the mismanagement of a series of weak emperors, suffered a catastrophic defeat at the hands of the Seljuk Turks, newly arrived in the region.www.historyeurope.net

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0:29.0	Place must be 18 or over. Today there exist numerous rivalries between various nations of Europe,
0:51.3	for example between the English and French, the Serbs and Croats, or the Dutch and the Germans.
0:58.0	Fortunately, most are now less hostile than in earlier times, and played out on the football field instead of on real battlefields.
1:07.0	No rivalries today are as embittered as that between Greece and Turkey, whose relationship can only be understood by getting to know their histories.
1:18.6	It all began about millennium ago, and it is their first major confrontation that I will talk about today.
1:29.9	Welcome to a history of Europe, Key Battles, the Battle of Manziket, between the Greeks-stroke Byzantines and the Turks.
1:43.4	In a previous podcast, I told the story of the centuries of conflict between the first Bulgarian kingdom and the Byzantine Empire, which culminated in 1014 in the Battle of the Clydon Pass.
1:58.8	Victory was achieved by Basil II, who for his military successes became known as Basil the
2:05.2	Bulgarslayer. He left the empire in the strongest position it had been for centuries, but it took
2:12.7	his successes a surprisingly short time to squander his legacy.
2:18.3	In the half century after the death of Basil II, the Byzantine Empire suffered significant decline under a series of exceptionally poor leaders.
2:30.3	One of our best sources for this period is a work by a Byzantine monk by the name of Michael Salas.
2:37.0	Born in around 1017, Salas' best known work is the chronographia.
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