The Great Seljuks were originally nearly all Turk army but by the 1st Crusade their armies were usually recruited from locals with a core of Turks who were often engaged on the northeastern frontiers.
On the march to Jerusalem the Crusaders did not easily win every battle and all the smaller groups of Crusaders were killed other than those which split off the capture Edessa. However the Turks in Anatolia did also defeat the smaller Crusader armies and held on to most of of their territory even after losing some battles. The Rum Turks in Anatolia were not completely defeated by Crusaders but did flee a couple battlefields and the Byzantines subsequently took possession of significant territory in the wake of the Crusader armies. Most of the armies raised to fight the Crusaders in Syria were not Turks but locals who had never fought an enemy like the Crusaders. Muslims were not united and the Crusaders were able to capitalize on some of the petty fighting the Emirs engaged in nearly up to the point the Crusaders were laying siege.Īlso the Turks had somewhat conquered but mostly accepted pledges of loyalty by local Arab chiefs and Emirs in Syria.
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