The Georgian king Davit IV Agmashenebeli is considered to be the greatest and most successful Georgian ruler in history and an original architect of the Georgian Golden Age. Once in 1121 he’s heavily outnumbered army of 55 000 men defeated the large turk Seljuk force of approximately 300 000.

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1. *Slowly nods in approval*.

2. I don’t want to spoil it for you but everybody knows an army of 300000 men can not be maintained. Modern historians put those numbers down for any known battle. 30000 – 35000 would be more accurate.

3. There is no way Seljuks had an army of 300,000. Typical exaggeration of medieval chroniclers, similar how Islamic chroniclers claims there were 200,000 Byzantine troops in Manzikert.

   Also considering, it was an army of local Turkmen ruler, not the Seljuk sultan, another reason why this number is impossible.