Beylik of Smirna

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Establishment

• January 1089: The Beylik of Smirna was a Turkish polity established in 1088.

Chronology

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1. Conquests of Malik Shah I

Expansion during the rule of Malik Shah I in the Seljuk Empire.

• January 1089: The Beylik of Smirna was a Turkish polity established in 1088.
• 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.

2. Byzantine-Seljuq wars

Were a series of conflicts in the Middle Ages between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuk Empire.

• 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.

3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

• January 1092: In 1090/91, the Byzantines under Constantine Dalassenos recovered Chios.
• January 1093: Byzantine military leader Constantine Dalassenos was sent against Tzachas, Bey of Smirna, and attacked the fortress of Mytilene on Lesbos.

Disestablishment

• January 1098: Smyrna and the rest of Tzachas' former domain were recovered by the Byzantines in c. 1097.