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Hello everyone and welcome to the history of Byzantium Episode 216, The Battle of

Dorolayam.

In our last episode, the armies of the first crusade besieged the city of Nysia until its

garrison surrendered.

The Turkic troops had no interest in facing the westerners though.

They submitted to the Byzantines who duly rewarded them for their wise decision.

Alexius's headquarters during the siege were at Pel'Acanos, not too far from Kibatos.

Once he'd paid off the Turks, the Emperor called the leaders of the crusade to come and

visit him.

He planned on rewarding them generously, but he also had his eye on a few nobles who he

hadn't met yet.

Even like Boheumon's nephew Tancred, who had crossed the Bosphorus without swearing an

oath of allegiance to the Vassil Fs.

This was a potentially tense encounter.

As I mentioned last week, many crusaders had a bad taste in their mouth about how Nysia

had fallen.

The Byzantine approach to this holy war was different to that favored by the Latins,

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