In 1069. It was actually his general, Philaretos Brachamios, who was defeated. Due to his defeat, Romanus IV did not do any fighting because the campaign was lost before he got actually involved.
The Ottoman Turks.
There was not a Byzantine king. There was a Byzantine Emperor. The last Byzantine emperor was Constantine XI Palaiologos. He died in battle when Constantinople, the capital of the empire, fell to the Ottoman Turks.
The Byzantine Empire had been growing steadily smaller and weaker for centuries, but it was finally defeated altogether by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
The Ottoman Turks defeated the Byzantine Empire in 1453.
The Ottomans destroyed the last part of the Byzantine Empire. (Constantinople)
Alexios I Komnenos, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, called upon Western European Christians to help him defeat the Seljuk Turks in what eventually became the First Crusade.
The Byzantine Emperor (Alexius) asked Pope Urban for Christian knights to help him fight the Muslims Turks.
The Ottoman Turks.
There was not a Byzantine king. There was a Byzantine Emperor. The last Byzantine emperor was Constantine XI Palaiologos. He died in battle when Constantinople, the capital of the empire, fell to the Ottoman Turks.
The Byzantine Emperor (Alexius) asked Pope Urban for Christian knights to help him fight the Muslims Turks.
By the time of the Crusades the Byzantine Empire was in dire straits, having suffered a catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Manzikert in 1071 and then enduring a taxing civil war which saw the army mostly crippled and almost all of Asia Minor lost to the expanding Turks. The Emperor Alexios I Comnenus had every reason to fear the Turks on his border as well as the Latin Crusaders he conducted through his lands.
The push for the crusades came when the Byzantine emperor Alexius I asked the Europeans for help against the Selijuk Turks, who were muslims.
The push for the crusades came when the Byzantine emperor Alexius I asked the Europeans for help against the Selijuk Turks, who were muslims.
Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118) asked him for help against Muslim Turks.
The Byzantine Empire had been growing steadily smaller and weaker for centuries, but it was finally defeated altogether by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
The Ottoman Turks defeated the Byzantine Empire in 1453.
The Byzantine Empire in the year of 1453 to The Ottoman Turks.