Seljuk campaigns in the Aegean
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| Seljuk campaigns in the Aegean | |||||||||
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| Part of the Byzantine-Seljuk Wars | |||||||||
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Alexios I Constantine Dalassenos Manuel Boutoumites John Doukas |
Abu'l Qasim | ||||||||
The Seljuk campaigns in the Aegean refer to the ground and naval actions conducted by the
Abu'l Qasim
, the Seljuk governor of Nicaea, who attempted to create a fleet of his own at Abydos in ca. 1090.
Tzachas recovered from his first defeat and retook several islands, but was definitively defeated at Lesbos by Constantine Dalassenos and John Doukas in 1092. His capital, Smyrna, and most of the Aegean coastline were recovered by Doukas in 1097, ending the Turks' direct access to the Aegean.
Alexios I Komnenos' son,
Umur of Aydın
in c. 14th century that constituted the first Turkish threat to Christian shipping in the Aegean since the 11th century.
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