The Turks regathered strength & retook Gangra
Unit appears in:
IOANNES II (1118-1143)
1138
Summary:
Gangra was not fated to remain long in Byzantine hands. While Ioannes II was busy with even more important affairs, the local Turks gathered their forces and starved the city into submission
Dates:
1138 (Uncertain)
Emperor Ioannes II Komnenos (
Ioannes 2
)
Gangra was not fated to remain long in Byzantine hands; when
Ioannes 2
was engrossed in even more important events, the local Turks gathered their forces and starved the city into submission (:)
Niketas Choniates, Historia 21.49-53