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Name: uqaylid dynasty

Type: Cluster

Start: 990 AD

End: 1096 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Uqaylid Dynasty
  • Uqaylid dynasty (Seljuk)
  • Establishment


  • January 990: The Diyar Rabi'a was occupied by the Uqaylid Dynasty in 989.
  • Chronology


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    1. Conquests of Tughril I


    Expansion during the rule of Tughril I in the Seljuk Empire.

  • January 1053: Baraka's son Quraysh ("'Alam al-Din") succeeded him and ruled for the next nine years. During his reign he acknowledged the supremacy of the Seljuks.

  • 2. Conquests of Malik Shah I


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

  • 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 1087: Syrian Seljuks occupied the areas of Kyrrhos and Gaziantep (Ayntab) in 1086.

  • 3. Conquests of Suleiman I


    Expansion during the rule of Suleiman I in the Sultanate of Rum.

  • January 1087: Edessa conquered by Sultanate of Rum.

  • 4. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 997: Uqaylid ruler Muhammad b. Musayyib died in 996. He was succeeded by his brother Muqallad, who in that same year marched on Mosul, forcing its Buwayhid governor to flee.

  • January 1091: The Nizari Ismaili, a branch of Shia Islam, created a state of unconnected fortresses across Persia, Syria, and the Fertile Crescent, surrounded by huge swathes of hostile territory.

  • January 1096: Around 1094, the Seljuk emir of Damascus, Tutush I, captured Edessa and installed Thoros (Armenian T‘oros = Theodore), an old lieutenant of Philaretus, as governor. In 1095, Theodore eliminated the Turkish garrison of the citadel and made himself master of the city.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1097: The siege of Mosul was a siege carried out by the Seljuks on the city of Mosul, the capital of the Uqaylid dynasty and the seat of its rule. They were able to storm the city in October 1096 AD after the intensification of the 9-months siege. The result was the collapse of the Uqaylid dynasty, after a rule that lasted more than 100 years.
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