Battle of the Rhyndacus (1211)

Battle of the Rhyndacus
Part of the Rhyndacus river
Result	Latin victory Treaty of Nymphaeum

Belligerents Empire of Nicaea Latin EmpireCommanders and leaders Theodore I Henry of FlandersStrength unknown 2,000
275 knights & escorts^[1]

The Battle of the Rhyndacus was fought on 15 October 1211 between the forces of two of the main successor states of the Byzantine Empire, the Latin Empire and the Byzantine Greek Empire of Nicaea, established following the dissolution of the Byzantine state after the Fourth Crusade.

The Latin emperor,

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Warfare lapsed thereafter, and both sides concluded the Treaty of Nymphaeum, which gave the Latin Empire control of most of Mysia up to the village of Kalamos (modern Gelenbe), which was to be uninhabited and mark the boundary between the two states.

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