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Group: Smyrna, (Ionian) city-state of
People: Shalmaneser II

The Seljuqs have wrested Syria, Palestine and …

Years: 1108 - 1251

The Seljuqs have wrested Syria, Palestine and the Hejaz from the Fatimids, who, having lost both Crete and Cyprus to Byzantium in the 960s, now hold only Egypt.

The disintegration of the great Seljuq empire soon begins, however.

Control of Palestine is contested between the European Franks of the First and Second Crusades and the Zengid dynasty of Syria and Iraq.