Second Battle of Sarvandik'ar

Second Battle of Sarvandik'ar

The Kingdom of Cilician Armenia, 1199–1375
Date1276
Location
near Sarvandik'ar fortress
Result Armenian victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Cilician Armenia 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.