Aydin, which had been called Güzelhisar (“Beautiful…

Máté Csák lays siege to Charles' capital, Buda, in the summer of 1311, but Charles forces back his attack.

Shortly afterwards, the citizens of Košice murder Amade Aba, who had been one of Charles' main partisans, but Charles takes the side of the citizens against Amade Aba's sons; consequently, the latter ally themselves with Máté Csák.

The Ottomans, lacking effective siege equipment, have been unable to take the major cities of Bithynia.

Nor can they move against their increasingly powerful Turkmen neighbors Aydin and Karasi, which have taken over imperial territory in southwestern Anatolia.

Alauddin Khilji has by 1311 made tributaries of the kingdoms of Rajasthan.

The Hoysalas had extended their foothold in areas known today as Tamil Nadu around 1225, making the city of Kannanur Kuppam near Srirangam a provincial capital and giving them control over South Indian politics that had begun a period of Hoysala hegemony in the southern Deccan.

Vira Narasimha II's son Vira Someshwara had earned the honorific "uncle" (Mamadi) from the Pandyas and Cholas.

The Hoysala influence spread over the Pandya kingdom also.

Toward the end of thirteenth century, Veera Ballala III had recaptured territory in the Tamil country which had been lost to the Pandya uprising, thus uniting the northern and southern portions of the kingdom.

The Delhi Sultanate marauders, their appetite for loot only increased by their success at Warangal, continue south to overrun the Hoysalas in 1311.

Again, the Muslims do not depose the rulers but plunder the treasury and exact a promise of annual tribute.

The Delhi expedition, having engulfed the Hoysalas, overruns Madurai, the deserted former capital of the Pandya state, and reaches the coast opposite Sri Lanka.

The invaders make Madurai a province and install a military governor there to supervise tribute collection and other matters.

The Karasi principality, founded around 1300 by Karasi, a frontier ruler under Seljuq suzerainty, and centered in the Balikesir-Çanakkale region of western Anatolia, has two branches, with their respective centers in Balikesir and …

…Bergama (Pergamum).

The Catalan Company has freed the duchy of its enemies within a year, only to be betrayed by Brienne, who refuses to pay for is services.

The Company avenges itself on March 15, 1311, defeating and killing Brienne in the Battle of Halmyros, taking control of the duchy of Athens and …

…Thebes, turning out the Latin lords of Achaia.

The new Aragonese lands, no longer under control of the French, expand into Thessaly and become the duchies of Athens and Neopatria.

The Catalan rule will last without interruption until 1388–1390, when they are defeated by the Navarrese Company under Pedro de San Superano, Juan de Urtubia, and allied with the Florentines under Nerio I Acciaioli of Corinth.

Palma de Mallorca had become joint capital of the Kingdom of Majorca after the death of James I of Aragon, with Perpignan inherited by his son, James II of Majorca.

James had allied with Pope Martin IV and king Philip III of France (the widower of his sister, Isabella) against his brother in the Aragonese Crusade, but had been defeated in the Battle of Les Formigues in 1285.

His nephew Alfonso III of Aragon had annexed the Balearic Islands to Aragon in the conquest, but they had been returned by the Treaty of Anagni in 1295.

Following this reversion, James has made an effort to improve the viability of the kingdom on the domestic front.

He has devoted himself to running his kingdom by reforming urbanism, establishing agricultural policy, emphasizing defense, and reforming the economy.

He has implemented a vast policy of agricultural colonization with the creation of rural centers; increase royal rents; favored the creation of consulates in North Africa and the Kingdom of Granada; created a new monetary system for the kingdom; fomented the creation of textile industries; proceeded to increase the power of the crown over that of the nobility and the Church; and championed the construction of statues, monuments, palaces and castles, including the palace at Perpignan.

His projects in Palma include the circular Bellver Castle, the churches of St. Francesc and St. Domingo, and the transformation of the former Muslim palace of the Banu Ganiya, at the edge of the port, into the Palace of Almudaina.

The king also continues the construction of La Seu, the Cathedral of Santa María at Majorca, begun by his father on the site of an existing Arab mosque.

Designed in Spanish Levantino Gothic or southern French Gothic style with influences of the North European Gothic, plans for La Seu include a giant arcade and a French semicircular chevet.

Almudaina Palace.

The opening of criminal proceedings against the Knights Templar and their later suppression has allowed the seizure of the tithes of the Templars on the islands.

When James dies in 1311, his eldest son, James renounces his claim to became a Franciscan monk; thus, his second son by Escalaramunda de Foix, daughter of Roger IV, count of Foix, inherits the throne as King of Majorca, Count of Roussillon and Cerdanya, and Lord of Montpellier.