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Name: Marwanids

Type: Polity

Start: 984 AD

End: 1085 AD

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With the weakening of the Buyid power after the death of Adud ad-Daula after 983, the Kurdish Marwan tribe gained control of Mayyafariqin and the areas of Amida and Nusaybin.

Establishment


  • January 984: With the weakening of the buyid power after the death of Adud ad-Daula after 983, the Kurdish Marwan tribe under Badh, a former shepherd, gained control of Mayyafariqin and the areas of Amida and Nusaybin.
  • Chronology


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    1. Byzantine-Georgian wars


    Were a series of conflicts between the Byzantine Empire and the Kingdom of Georgia.

    1.1.Georgian campaigns of Basil II

    Was a military campaign by Byzantine emperor Basil II in Georgia.

  • September 1021: The Byzantines defeated the Georgians in the Battle of Shirimni.
  • December 1021: In the autumn of 1021 Byzantine emperor Basil, at the head of a large army reinforced by the Varangian Guards, attacked the Georgians and their Armenian allies, recovering Phasiane and pushing on beyond the frontiers of Tao into inner Georgia.
  • January 1022: The Ardzruni kingdom of Vaspurakan was annexed by the Byzantine Empire.

  • 2. Byzantine-Seljuq wars


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

    2.1.Seljuk invasion of Asia minor

    Was the invasion of Asia Minor by the Seljuq Turks.

  • January 1068: The Anatolian Seljuks took Aintab in 1067.

  • 3. Revolt of Roussel de Bailleul


    Norman mercenaries, led by Roussel de Bailleul, rebelled against the Byzantines, crushed an imperial army, and attempted to establish an independent kingdom in Anatolia. .

  • January 1074: In 1073 following the disastrous Battle of Manzikert, Frankish mercenaries under Roussel de Bailleul seized control of Ankara and governed the region for several months.

  • 4. Conquests of Malik Shah I


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

  • 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.

  • 5. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 991: Independence of the Numayrid Dynasty from the Hamdanids.

  • January 1001: During his early reign, Waththab, a member of the Numayrid Dynasty, annexed Edessa from the Hamdanids.

  • January 1041: The Byzantines conquered Edessa in the early 1030s.

  • January 1065: Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan marched into Armenia and Georgia, conquering these regions.

  • Disestablishment


  • 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.
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