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The siege of Antioch took place during the First Crusade in 1097 and 1098, on the crusaders' way to Jerusalem through Syria. Two sieges took place in succession. Two sieges took place in succession. The first siege, by the crusaders against the city held by the Seljuk Empire , lasted from 20 October 1097 [ 11 ] to 3 June 1098.
After a series of campaigns against the Roman Empire (252-256),Shapur I faced Emperor Valerian in Edessa for the third time, which led to the defeat of the Romans and the capture of Valerian and the high Roman officials [1] Valerian spent the last days of her life in prison [2].After this victory, Shapur decided to launch a new attack on the cities of Antioch, Cilicia and Caesarea. [3]
The Parthian expedition was nominally led by Prince Pacorus I, who was, however, a child.The actual command therefore fell to the experienced general Osaces. Cicero, who was at the time governor of the neighbouring province of Cilicia, reported that he had learned of the invasion on a date which corresponds to 20 September 51 BC. [3]
An illustration of Kerbogha besieging Antioch, from a 14th-century manuscript in the care of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. As the starving and outnumbered Crusaders emerged from the gates of the city and divided into six regiments, Kerbogha's commander, Watthab ibn Mahmud, urged him to immediately strike their advancing line. [4]
Most official documents mentioning episodes of the war have been preserved by two military orders, the Knights Hospitaller and the Teutonic Knights, because the state archives of the two crusader states deeply involved in the war—the Principality of Antioch and the County of Tripoli—were destroyed, just like most of the relevant documents of the Knights Templar.
Battle of Antioch (145 BC) or the Battle of the Oenoparus, a battle between Ptolemaic Egypt and the Seleucid Empire; Battle of Antioch (218), a battle between Macrinus and Elagabalus; Siege of Antioch (253), a siege by the Sassanid Empire against the Roman Empire; Battle of Antioch (613), a battle between the Byzantine and Sassanid Empires
Antioch on the Orontes (/ ˈ æ n t i. ɒ k /; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου, romanized: Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou, pronounced [anti.ó.kʰeː.a]) [note 1] was a Hellenistic Greek city [1] [2] founded by Seleucus I Nicator in 300 BC. [3]
The Battle of the Lake of Antioch took place on 9 February 1098 during the First Crusade. As the Crusaders were besieging Antioch, word reached the Crusader camp that a large relief force led by Radwan, the Seljuq ruler of Aleppo, was on the way. Bohemond of Taranto gathered all remaining horses and marched in the night to ambush the Muslim ...