Conquests of Malik Shah I
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Expansion during the rule of Malik Shah I in the Seljuk Empire.
Chronology
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January 1073: Territorial change based on available maps.
April 1073: Malik-Shah managed to repel the Karakhanids and captured Tirmidh.
January 1074: In 1073, the Seljuk Turks captured Jerusalem.
January 1074: Within two years the Turkmens had established control as far as the Aegean Sea under numerous beghliks.
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 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 1081: The Seljuks gained Aleppo from the Mirdasids in 1080.
January 1082: Their Numayrid capital Harran and nearby Saruj were conquered by the Turkish Seljuks.
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 1087: Syrian Seljuks occupied the areas of Kyrrhos and Gaziantep (Ayntab) in 1086.
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 1089: The Beylik of Smirna was a Turkish polity established in 1088.
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.
