Siege of Sinope
The siege of Sinope in 1214 was a successful siege and capture of Sinope by the Sultanate of Rum under their Sultan, Kaykaus I (r. 1211–1220). Sinope was an important port city on the Black Sea coast of modern Turkey, at the time held by the Empire of Trebizond, one of the Byzantine Greek successor states formed after the Fourth Crusade. The siege is described in some detail by the near-contemporary Seljuq chronicler Ibn Bibi. The Trapezuntine emperor Alexios I (r. 1204–1222) led an army to break the siege, but he was defeated and captured, and the city surrendered on 1 November.
| Siege of Sinope | |||||||
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| Part of the Byzantine–Seljuq Wars | |||||||
Bilingual inscription (Arabic and Greek) of Kaykaus I on the walls of Sinope | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Empire of Trebizond | Sultanate of Rum | ||||||
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| Alexios I of Trebizond (POW) | Kaykaus I | ||||||
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