In May 1097, the Christian Princes of France, accompanied by a man with a cut-off nose, arrived in Nicaea, Turkey, the capital of the Seljuk kingdom. It sat on the shore of a lake and was surrounded by a massive wall and over 200 towers. The 18-year old Seljuk Sultan, Kilij Arslan I, didn’t take them seriously at first, based on his experience with Peter the Hermit’s crusaders. That quickly changed.
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Renaissance #201 – The Crusader with No Nose (The Crusades part 10)
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