High Middle Ages · Middle East · War
1064
Seljuks sack Ani
August 16, 1064
Alp Arslan's army stormed the Armenian capital and gave it over to slaughter and fire. Contemporary chroniclers described bodies so thick in the streets that one could not walk without stepping on them. The fall of the city of a thousand churches erased Armenia's last functioning kingdom. Ani's massive stone walls and glittering skyline of churches had made it one of the richest cities in the medieval world.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.