Conquests of Malik Shah I

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• January 1089: The Beylik of Smirna was a Turkish polity established in 1088.
• January 1074: In 1073, the Seljuk Turks captured Jerusalem.
• January 1087: Syrian Seljuks occupied the areas of Kyrrhos and Gaziantep (Ayntab) in 1086.
• January 1080: The great sultan of the Seljuk Empire, Malik Shah I, occupied Syria, removing it from the control of the local Arab princes and Turkish lords who had already settled there.
• January 1076: In 1075 Seljuk ruler Alp Arslan annexed the last of the Shaddadid territories. A cadet branch of Shaddadids continued to rule in Ani and Tbilisi.
• January 1081: The Seljuks gained Aleppo from the Mirdasids in 1080.
• January 1086: After Nasr al-Dawla's death, the Marwanids' power declined. Henceforth, the Diyar Bakr fell almost entirely under the direct rule of the Seljuqs.
• January 1073: Territorial change based on available maps.
• January 1090: Seljuk Malik-Shah marched to Semirechye, and made the Karakhanid Harun Khan ibn Sulayman, who was the ruler of Kashgar and Khotan, acknowledge him as his suzerain.
• April 1073: Malik-Shah managed to repel the Karakhanids and captured Tirmidh.
• January 1082: Their Numayrid capital Harran and nearby Saruj were conquered by the Turkish Seljuks.
• January 1090: In 1089, Seljuk Malik-Shah captured Samarkand with the support of the local clergy, and imprisoned its Karakhanid ruler.
• January 1091: The Beylik of Smirna conquered Phocaea and the eastern Aegean islands of Lesbos (except for the fortress of Methymna), Samos, Chios and Rhodes.
• January 1074: Within two years the Turkmens had established control as far as the Aegean Sea under numerous beghliks.