Siege of Antalya

Part of the Byzantine-Seljuk wars

Date	March 1207
Location	Attalia (modern-day Antalya, Turkey), Asia Minor
Result	Seljuk victory

Belligerents

Empire of Nicaea

Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm

Commanders and leaders

Aldobrandini

Sultan Kaykhusraw I

Byzantine–Seljuq wars

Kapetron 1st Manzikert Caesarea Iconium 2nd Manzikert Seljuq campaigns in the Aegean 1st Nicaea 2nd Nicaea Philomelion Campaigns of John I Komnenos Myriokephalon Hyelion and Leimocheir 1st Trebizond Attalia Antioch on the Meander Sinope 2nd Trebizond

The siege of Antalya or siege of Attalia in March 1207 was the successful Turkic capture of the city of Attalia (today Antalya, Turkey), a port in southern-western Asia Minor. The capture of port gave the Turks another path into the Mediterranean although it would be another 100 years before the Turks made any serious attempts into the sea.

The port had come under the control of a Tuscan adventurer by the name of Aldobrandini, who had been in the service of the Byzantine Empire, but reputedly mistreated Egyptian merchants at that port. The inhabitants appealed to the regent of Cyprus, Gautier de Montbeliard, who occupied the town but was unable to prevent the Seljuk Turks from ravaging the adjacent countryside. Sultan Kaykhusraw I took the town by storm in March 1207, and put his lieutenant Mubariz al-Din Ertokush ibn 'Abd Allah in charge as its governor.^[1]

References

↑ Claude Cahen, Pre-Ottoman Turkey: A General Survey of the Material and Spiritual Culture and History c. 1071-1330, 1968 (New York: American Council of Learned Societies, 2014), pp. 119f

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