It was a good time to do it: the Christian city, located in present-day Turkey, had just been invaded by the Seljuk Turks. The whole region was in turmoil. This was the time to slip in and steal ...
It began with an appeal for aid from the Christian Byzantine Empire, threatened by the rising power of the Muslim Seljuk Turks. But when Pope Urban II preached a sermon at Clermont in 1095 ...
It stands as a testament to the architectural ingenuity of the Seljuk era, with its unique design and Kufic inscriptions highlighting its cultural and historical value. Izadkhasti emphasized that the ...