Turkish myth and Muslim symbol the battle of Manzikert
Turks ruled the Middle East for a millennium and eastern Europe for many centuries and it is an undoubted fact that they moulded the lands under their dominion. It is therefore something of a paradox that the history of Turkey and aspects of the identity and role of the Turks, both as Muslims and as...
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Edinburgh University Press
2007
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- Introduction
- The twelfth-century accounts of the battle of Manzikert
- The thirteenth-century accounts of the battle of Manzikert
- The fourteenth- and fifteenth-century accounts of the battle of Manzikert
- Writing the battle
- The ongoing Muslim-Christian confrontation : the victorious contribution of the Turks
- The heritage of Manzikert : the myth of national identity