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Name: numayrid dynasty

Type: Cluster

Start: 991 AD

End: 1120 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Numayrid Dynasty
  • Numayrid dynasty (Fatimids)
  • Numayrid dynasty (Abbasids)
  • 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.
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