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Group: Tripolitania (Regency of Tripoli, Tripoli-in-the-West), Ottoman eyalet of
People: Louis IV, King of Western Francia
Topic: Auspicious Incident (or Event), aka Massacre of the Janissaries
Location: Augusta Trevorum > Trier Rheinland-Pfalz Germany

Edessa falls in 1087 to Malik Shah …

Years: 1087 - 1087

Edessa falls in 1087 to Malik Shah and Philaretos escapes back to the fortress of Germanikeia; however, some sources indicate that he died in 1086.

He is the last well-known Domestic of the Schools of the East.

His sons will hand Germanikeia to the First Crusade in 1098.