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Crusades

Siege of Nicaea

Friday May 14, 1097
Nicaea (Present-Day İznik, Turkey)

Alexios I Komnenos persuaded many of the princes to pledge allegiance to him. He also convinced them their first objective should be Nicaea. Buoyed by their success at Civetot, the over-confident Seljuks left the city unprotected, thus enabling its capture after the siege of Nicaea in May–June 1097.


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