The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location
Manzikert
Also known as Malazkerd, Malasgerd
- city
- Byzantine and Armenian
The Armenian frontier town, also called Malazkerd, where Romanus Diogenes was defeated by the Seljuks. Gibbon marks it as the battle that opened Anatolia to Turkish settlement.
- Type
- city
- Style
- Byzantine and Armenian
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 257
- Books
- 1
History
BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)
The Armenian frontier town, also called Malazkerd, where Romanus Diogenes was defeated by the Seljuks. Gibbon marks it as the battle that opened Anatolia to Turkish settlement.
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