Battle of Caesarea

The Battle of Caesarea occurred in 1067 when the Seljuk Turks under Alp Arslan attacked Caesarea.

Caesarea was sacked "and its Cathedral of St. Basil desecrated".^[3]

Following Caesarea, the Seljuk Turks made another attempt invading Anatolia, with an assault on Iconium in 1069. This provoked Romanos IV Diogenes' second campaign.^[4]

References

Sources

• Harris, Jonathan (2014). Byzantium and the Crusades (2 ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1780938318.
• Jeffreys, Elizabeth; Haldon, John F.; Cormack, Robin, eds. (2008). The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199252466.
• Lock, Peter (2006). The Routledge Companion to the Crusades. Routledge. ISBN 978-1135131371.
• Nicolle, David (2013). Hook, Christa, ed. Manzikert 1071: The breaking of Byzantium. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1780965031.