 While the Seljuk Sultan of Rûm, Kilij Arslan, was away resolving a dispute a Frankish siege and Byzantine naval assault captured Nicea in June 1097.In marching through Anatolia, the crusaders suffered starvation, thirst and disease before gaining experience of the Turkish lightly armoured mounted archers at the Battle of Dorylaeum.Baldwin left with a small force to establish the County of Edessa, the first Crusader state and Antioch was captured in June 1098.