Map of southeastern Europe and Asia Minor, showing the Nicaean Empire and Seljuk Sultanate ca. 1210.
Date
Probably 17 June 1211[1]
Location
Asia Minor
Result
Nicaean victory
Belligerents
Empire of Nicaea
Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm
Commanders and leaders
Theodore I Laskaris
Kaykhusraw I † Alexios III Angelos (POW)
Strength
2,000 cavalry[2]
800 Latin cavalry[3]
5,000–11,000[4]
Casualties and losses
Most of the Latins died[3]
Heavy
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Byzantine–Seljuk wars
Ganja
Vaspurakan
Kapetron
1st Manzikert
Ani
1st Caesarea
1st Iconium
Sebastia
2nd Manzikert
2nd Caesarea
Sultanate of Rûm campaigns in the Aegean sea
Koyun Islands
1st Nicaea
Mersivan
2nd Nicaea
Philomelion
Campaigns of John II Komnenos
Laodicea
Sozopolis
2nd Iconium
Turbessel
Myriokephalon
Hyelion and Leimocheir
Claudiopolis
1st Trebizond
Antalya
Antioch on the Meander
Sinope
Sudak
2nd Trebizond
The Battle of Antioch on the Meander (also known as the Battle of Alaşehir[5]) was a military engagement near Antioch-on-the-Meander between the forces of the Empire of Nicaea and the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm. The Turkish defeat ensured continued Nicaean hegemony of the Aegean coast of Asia Minor. The Seljuk sultan, Kaykhusraw I, was killed on the field of battle. The battle took place near the modern town of Yamalak in Kuyucak district in Aydın Province.
^Korobeinikov, Dimitri (2014). Byzantium and the Turks in the Thirteenth Century. Oxford University Press. p. 149. ISBN 978-0191017940. Theodore I had no choice but to fight. In the battle at Antioch at the Maeander the Nicaean army was almost defeated, but Laskaris met the sultan in person and after a short duel killed him. The battle took place after 15 June 1211, probably on 17 June.
^Treadgold 1997, p. 717.
^ abBartusis, Mark C. (1997). The Late Byzantine Army: Arms and Society, 1204-1453. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 28. ISBN 9780812216202.
^Battle of Antioch on the Meander (1211), Adam Ali, Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, ed. Alexander Mikaberidze, (ABC-CLIO, 2011), 118-119.
^Redford 1991, p. 70.
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