The Room Seldus of the Middle East

Tensions remained high between the byzantines, who were looking to capitalize on crusader incursions into middle eastern lands. One man of turkmanethnicity would take this as an opportunity to establish his own small principality in anatolia. The europeans came very quickly after the establishment of the sultanate of room and their journeys would take them through an italian territory. These particular stories will be told later in the volume.