Second Battle of Sarvandik'ar | |||||||
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The Kingdom of Cilician Armenia, 1199–1375 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Ilkhanate | Mamluk Sultanate | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Sempad the Constable † King Leo II | unknown | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
several hundred Armenian knights and their retinues | unknown but superior to Armenian forces, including 1000 Mamluk horsemen | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
unknown, including 300 Armenian knights | unknown but reportedly heavy |
The Second Battle of Sarvandik'ar was fought in 1276 A.D. between an army of the Mamluks of Egypt and a unit of Cilician Armenians, in a mountain pass that separates Eastern Cilicia and Northern Syria. The battle was part of the Armenian war effort against a much larger and better trained army that habitually raided the Cilician Plain and threatened to annihilate the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.