Battle of Iconium (1190)

Battle of Iconium
	Part of the Third Crusade
	; The battle of Iconium, by Hermann Wislicenus (c.1890)
Date	18 May 1190
Location	Iconium (modern day Konya, Turkey)37.8667°N 32.4833°E
Result	Crusader victory Main Seljuk army routed; Sultanate of Rûm's capital city sacked; Crusaders take a massive amount of loot; Qutb al-Din replaced by his father, who agrees to let the Germans pass through and sends them hostages;
Belligerents
Holy Roman Empire; Kingdom of Hungary	Sultanate of Rûm
Commanders and leaders
Frederick I; Holy Roman Emperor Frederick VI; Duke of Swabia; Děpolt II; Bohemian Nobleman; Géza; Prince of Hungary	Qutb al-Din
Strength
12,000–20,000 2,000	Larger than the Crusaders
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Field army:; 3,000 killed; Garrison:; all killed or captured; 20 nobles taken hostage

The Battle of Iconium (sometimes referred as the Battle of Konya) took place on May 18, 1190, during the Third Crusade, in the expedition of Frederick Barbarossa to the Holy Land. As a result, Iconium, the capital city of the Sultanate of Rûm under Kilij Arslan II, fell to the Imperial forces.

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