The Battle of Hyelion and Leimocheir saw the almost complete destruction by the Byzantines, in an ambush at a river crossing, of a large Seljuq Turk army which had been raiding the Maeander Valley in Anatolia and had sacked a number of Byzantine cities.
The Battle of Hyelion and Leimocheir saw the almost complete destruction by the Byzantines, in an ambush at a river crossing, of a large Seljuq Turk army which had been raiding the Maeander Valley in Anatolia and had sacked a number of Byzantine cities.