The Empire of Nicaea, ruled by Theodore I, defeated the Seljuk Turks of the Sultanate of Rum. After the Latin seizure of Constantinople in 1204, a new Eastern Roman state was formed in Anatolia.
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 ...