Alaparselan and the Fatimids

Romanus the fourth was sick and tired of watching his byzantine empire allow the selduc turks too many cheap victories in their territory during his lifetime. Romanus decided to teach the seljuc turks a lesson and campaigned against them in retaliation for their conquest of the byzantine city of anni earlier in the ten sixties. Alaparselan realized that the bigger threat to the sel da turks were the fatumeds from the southeast. And so he headed around lake van undetected, in order to surprise romanu's great army that had been deployed in the direction of mansicurt. It would be a force of around 20