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Manzikert

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Manzikert (măn`zĭkərt), Turk. Malazgirt, village, E Turkey, SE of Erzurum. It was an important town of ancient Armenia. A council held there in A.D. 726 reasserted the independence of the Armenian Church from the Orthodox Eastern Church. There, in 1071, the Seljuk Turks under Alp Arslan Alp Arslan , 1029–72, Seljuk sultan of Persia (1063–72). In 1065 he led the Seljuks in an invasion of Armenia and Georgia and in 1066 attacked the Byzantine Empire.
..... Click the link for more information.  routed the troops of Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV Romanus IV (Romanus Diogenes) , d. 1072, Byzantine emperor (1068–71). A Cappadocian general, he succeeded Constantine X by marrying his widow, Eudocia Macrembolitissa.
..... Click the link for more information.  in a decisive battle that resulted in the fall of Asia Minor to the Seljuks.
Manzikert 

a fortress in Asia Minor (near Lake Van, on the eastern boundary of the Byzantine Empire), at whose walls a battle occurred on Aug. 19, 1071, between the armies of the Byzantine emperor Romanus IV Diogenes and the Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan.

At first the Byzantines succeeded in pressing the Seljuks, but then, as a result of sedition among the Byzantine troops (betrayal by the Ducas clique, which was hostile to the emperor), the army of Romanus IV was defeated, and he himself was taken prisoner (he was released on condition that he pay an annual tribute). The Victory at Manzikert hastened the establishment of Seljuk dominance in Asia Minor.

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Istoriia Vizantii, vol. 2. Moscow, 1967. Pages 284-87.
Guseinov, R. A. “Posledstviia srazheniia pri Mantsikerte (1071) dlia Zakavkaz’ia.” In the collection Vizantiiskii vremennik, vol. 29. Moscow, 1969.
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com 1-800-204-2665 Written by Russian Orthodox priest Andrew Louth, Greek East and Latin West: The Church AD 681-1071 is the third volume of "The Church in History" series and continues the scholarly accounting, from the end of the Sixth Ecumenical Synod in 681 to the Battle of Manzikert in 1071.
Greek East and Latin West (religion/history) by Lane, Margaret / Reviewer's Bookwatch
It is, in fact, rather amusing to imagine oneself wandering around in old Carthage or fighting at Manzikert.
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In 1071, the Seljuks defeated the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of Manzikert.
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