numayrid dynasty
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The Nation includes all the forms of the country.
The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:
Establishment
- January 991: Independence of the Numayrid Dynasty from the Hamdanids.
Chronology
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1. Conquests of Malik Shah I
Expansion during the rule of Malik Shah I in the Seljuk Empire.
- 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.
2. Conquests of Suleiman I
Expansion during the rule of Suleiman I in the Sultanate of Rum.
- January 1087: Edessa conquered by Sultanate of Rum.
3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)
- January 1001: During his early reign, Waththab, a member of the Numayrid Dynasty, annexed Edessa from the Hamdanids.
- January 1038: Fatimid vassalage of the Numayrid dynasty from 1037.
- January 1041: The Byzantines conquered Edessa in the early 1030s.
- January 1061: Abbasid allegiance of the Numayrid dynasty in 1060.
- January 1063: In 1062, the Numayrids lost Raqqa to their distant kinsmen and erstwhile allies, the Mirdasids.
- 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 1121: Numayrid emirs continued to hold isolated fortresses in Upper Mesopotamia, such as Qal'at an-Najm and Sinn Ibn Utayr near Samosata until the early 12th century, but nothing is heard of them after 1120.