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John Doukas (megas doux)
John Doukas was a Byzantine general and admiral, brother-in-law of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. As megas doux, commander of the fleet, he fought the Turkish emir Tzachas and recovered Crete and Cyprus from rebels in the early 1090s. After the First Crusade took Nicaea, he led the campaign of 1097–1098 that recovered Smyrna and the western coast of Anatolia from the Turks.
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