Certainty: 2 Manuel met Kilic Arslan's envoys at Pylai, dismissed them & attacked immediately.
Certainty: 2 Manuel achieved further surprise by marching at night with cressets, & pillaged widely.
Certainty: 2 Turks sent a spy to check Manuel's identity: he called this cowardice.
Certainty: 2 Manuel made his way home through a narrow defile with great courage.
Certainty: 3 Annual donation to Theotokos Eleousa established by Manuel I.
Certainty: 3 The Parthenon inscriptions record the death on May 16 of Georgios Bourtzes, metropolitan of Athens. Georgios Bourtzes, metropolitan of Athens is reported in the Parthenon inscriptions as having died on May 16
Certainty: 2 Turkish retaliation at Phileta & Laodikeia was damaging, driving Manuel to extreme measures.
Certainty: 2 Usama on pilgrimage to Mecca: advice to Jamal al-Din.
Certainty: 2 Manuel mobilised fully against Kilic Arslan, summoning all those who had sworn military help.
Certainty: 2 Ioannes Kontostephanos, collecting crusader contingents & local mercenaries, defeated a Turkish army.
Certainty: 2 Reynaud de Chatillon captured & imprisoned by Nur al-Din. Nur al-Din moved against Antioch and imprisoned Reynaud of Chatillon. This would lead to the rise of Bohemond III to be prince of Antioch
Certainty: 2 Manuel also wrote to Kilic Arslan's relatives & allies, to rouse suspicions.
Certainty: 1 Nikolaos Kataskepenos wrote the Life of Kyrillos Phileotes.