Bilingual inscription (Arabic and Greek) of Kaykaus I on the walls of Sinope
Date
1 November 1214
Location
Sinope, Asia Minor
Result
Seljuq victory, fall of the city
Belligerents
Empire of Trebizond
Sultanate of Rum
Commanders and leaders
Alexios I of Trebizond (POW)
Kaykaus I
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Byzantine–Seljuk wars
Ganja
Vaspurakan
Kapetron
1st Manzikert
Ani
1st Caesarea
1st Iconium
Sebastia
2nd Manzikert
2nd Caesarea
Seljuk campaigns in the Aegean
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 siege of Sinope in 1214 was a successful siege and capture of Sinope by the Sultanate of Rum under their Sultan, Kaykaus I (r. 1211–1220). Sinope was an important port city on the Black Sea coast of modern Turkey, at the time held by the Empire of Trebizond, one of the Byzantine Greek successor states formed after the Fourth Crusade. The siege is described in some detail by the near-contemporary Seljuq chronicler Ibn Bibi. The Trapezuntine emperor Alexios I (r. 1204–1222) led an army to break the siege, but he was defeated and captured, and the city surrendered on 1 November.[1][2]
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