The Battle of Dorylaeum took place during the First Crusade on July 1, 1097, between the crusaders and the Seljuk Turks, near the city of Dorylaeum in Anatolia. It was won by the crusaders. Vintage ...

The First Crusade was one of the most extraordinary ... threatened by the rising power of the Muslim Seljuk Turks. But when Pope Urban II preached a sermon at Clermont in 1095, the result was ...

threatened by the rising power of the Muslim Seljuk Turks. But when Pope Urban II preached a sermon at Clermont in 1095, the result was unlike anything ever seen before. #EpicHistoryTV #Crusades ...

asked the kings of Western Europe to send armies to assist him in pushing back the Seljuk Turks. The barbarian monarchs of the West sent hordes east—a counterinvasion we call the First Crusade.

The Crusades have gotten a bad reputation ... Alexius I Comnenus had asked Pope Urban for help in fighting the Seljuk Turks, who were encroaching on his territory. When the crusaders arrived ...

The Seljuk Turks, having conquered the Middle Eastern ... The Seljuk Empire, in turn, came apart, due less to the Crusades (between 1069 and 1291) than to devastating invasions by the Mongols ...

Jerusalem itself had been under Muslim control for more than four centuries at the time of the First Crusade, having been seized from the Byzantine Empire. Both Arabs and, later, Seljuk Turks had been ...