Siege of Antalya
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 Empire of Nicaea |
 Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm |
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| Unknown | Sultan Kaykhusraw I | ||||||
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The siege of Antalya was a successful Turkic capture of a southern-western port in Asia Minor. The capture of port gave the Turks another path into the Mediterranean although it would be another 100 years before the Turks made any serious attempts into the sea. However it did show the weakness of the splinter Byzantine kingdom the Nicaean Empire which had suffered the loss of the Capital Constantinople, now being reduced to the Asian part of Byzantium.
