Chaka Bey
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Chaka Bey, was an 11th-century Seljuk military commander of Oghuz Turk origin who ruled a vassal state of the Seljuks based in Smyrna. Originally in Byzantine service, he rebelled and seized Smyrna, m
Modern representation of Tzachas in the Istanbul Naval Museum
Kilij Arslan I
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Kilij Arslan I ibn Suleiman was the Seljuk sultan of Rûm. He reigned from 1092 until his death in 1107. He ruled the Sultanate during the time of the First Crusade and thus faced the earliest attacks
Chaka Bey
…naval expedition under Megadoux John Doukas inflicted a heavy defeat on him and retook Lesbos. He was later slain by his son-in-law the Sultan of Rum Kilij Arslan I the next year. Smyrna and the rest of Tzachas' former domain were recovered by the Byzantines a few years later, in c. 1097. Very little is known about…
Capture of Kilij Arslan's wife