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    Romanos IV Diogenes took power in 1068 and appointed Manuel Komnenos to lead a military expedition against the Seljuks, capturing Hierapolis but then being defeated and captured himself. Despite this success, Alp Arslan sought a peace treaty with Byzantium in 1069 to focus on his enemies in Egypt. In 1071, Romanos renewed the treaty with Arslan under false pretenses in order to launch a surprise attack on Seljuk territories in Armenia while their forces were distracted elsewhere.

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    Romanos IV Diogenes took power in 1068 and appointed Manuel Komnenos to lead a military expedition against the Seljuks, capturing Hierapolis but then being defeated and captured himself. Despite this success, Alp Arslan sought a peace treaty with Byzantium in 1069 to focus on his enemies in Egypt. In 1071, Romanos renewed the treaty with Arslan under false pretenses in order to launch a surprise attack on Seljuk territories in Armenia while their forces were distracted elsewhere.

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    Romanos IV Diogenes took power in 1068 and appointed Manuel Komnenos to lead a military expedition against the Seljuks, capturing Hierapolis but then being defeated and captured himself. Despite this success, Alp Arslan sought a peace treaty with Byzantium in 1069 to focus on his enemies in Egypt. In 1071, Romanos renewed the treaty with Arslan under false pretenses in order to launch a surprise attack on Seljuk territories in Armenia while their forces were distracted elsewhere.

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    In 1068, Romanos IV Diogenes took power and, after some speedy military reforms, appointed

    Manuel Komnenos (nephew of Isaac I Komnenos) to lead an expedition against the Seljuks.
    Manuel captured Hierapolis Bambyce in Syria, next thwarted a Turkish attack
    against Iconium with a counterattack,[10] but was then defeated and captured by the Seljuks.
    Despite this success, Alp Arslan quickly sought a peace treaty with the Byzantines, signed in
    1069; he saw the Fatimids in Egypt as his main enemy and had no desire to be diverted by
    unnecessary hostilities.[7]
    In February 1071, Romanos sent envoys to Arslan to renew the 1069 treaty; keen to secure his
    northern flank against attack, Arslan happily agreed.[7] Abandoning the siege of Edessa, he
    immediately led his army to attack the Fatimid-held Aleppo. However, the peace treaty had been
    a deliberate distraction: Romanos now led a large army into Armenia to recover the lost
    fortresses before the Seljuks had time to respond.

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