I. Haçlı Seferinde Haçlıların İznik’ten Eskişehir’e Takip Ettikleri Güzergâhın Tespiti
Determination of the Route of the Crusaders from İznik to Eskişehir During the First Crusade

Summary/Abstract: The Crusades is one of the most important turning points in the history of Turks in Anatolia. Only in a decade after the battle of Malazgirt Turks’ advances, which had reached to İstanbul and was secured by the treaty of peace in 1081, however, began to decline following the Crusades, and the Byzantine Empire became a dominant power in North-western Anatolia. On the call of Pope Urban, the Crusaders, moving from various countries of Europe, mainly France, continued their progress in the Anatolian lands by taking Iznik from Anatolian Seljuks. The subject of my work is related to the route the Crusaders followed from the Iznik to the possible area where the Battle of Dorylaion was made.There is no definite information about the direction of the Crusaders in both local and foreign sources, and they are talking about very different ways. We have reached important data about the field investigations we are conducting and the possible way the Crusaders walked. The remains of the Roman bridge in the Sakarya River, where we have identified other remains of the same area, as well as the bridge over the Göksu, which are all used by all of the existing studies, were strong evidence for the possible course of the Crusaders. From this point, it will be possible to determine the place of the Battle of Dorylaion, which is the place between Sultan Kılıçarslan and the Crusaders, with archeological works to be done.

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