Battle of Sudak explained

Conflict:	Battle of Sudak
Date:	1221/1222
Place:	Sudak
Result:	Seljuk victory^[1]
Combatant1:	Sultanate of Rum
Combatant2:	Kievan Rus’ Cuman-Kipchak ConfederationEmpire of Trebizond^[2]
Commander1:	Kayqubad the Great^[3] Husam al-Din Choban^[4]
Commander2:	Rus’ princes

The Battle of Sudak took place in 1221 or 1222 when Rus-Kipchak forces under Rus’ leadership attempted to capture the city from the Seljuks of Rum.

The Seljuks of Rum under Kayqubad I took control of Sudak in 1221 or 1222. Following the seizure of the city a joint Cuman-Rus army under Rus leadership led an attempt to take the city, this attempt was defeated by the Seljuk Turks.^{[5] [6]}

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=Q9KwCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA148 The Romanians and the Turkic Nomads North of the Danube Delta from the Tenth to the Mid-Thirteenth Century
2. A. C. S. Peacock, "The Saliūq Campaign against the Crimea and the Expansionist Policy of the Early Reign of'Alā' al-Dīn Kayqubād", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Third Series, 16 (2006), p. 140
3. The Romanians and the Turkic Nomads North of the Danube Delta from the Tenth to the Mid-Thirteenth Century. Victor Spinei. BRILL.
4. http://www.enfal.de/starih31.htm Enfal history page
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=_-G1L-9Zec0C&pg=PA430 “The” Other Europe in the Middle Ages: Avars, Bulgars, Khazars and Cumans ; [papers ... Presented in the Three Special Sessions at the 40th and 42nd Editions of the International Congress on Medieval Studies Held at Kalamazzo in 2005 and 2007]. Florin Curta, Roman Kovalev. BRILL.
6. https://books.google.com/books?id=tIYlAQAAMAAJ&q=seljuk+1221+ A History of Russia: Peoples, Legends, Events, Forces