The only eyewitness account of this battle comes from the historian Michael Attaleiates.
The only eyewitness account of this battle comes from the historian Michael Attaleiates. Joseph Tarchaniotes, who led his troops to join the enemy instead of marching to Lake Van, left Nicephorus Byrennius to march unsupported to the namesake location. One army formed a crescent and rained arrows upon the other, causing them to retreat from the steppes. The king Alp Arslan then ordered his troops forward as the Byzantines were given the order to withdraw by Emperor Romanus IV Diogenes. FTP, identify this 1071 battle that saw the Byzantines lose their eastern hegemony to the Seljuk Turks.
The only eyewitness account of this battle comes from the historian Michael Attaleiates.
Battle of {Manzikert}