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Appendix I - Chronology of Events

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2025

James Wilson
James Wilson
Affiliation:
Universität Konstanz, Germany
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441/1049–50: Fatimid army unsuccessfully besieged Aleppo.

444/1052–3: Mirdasid ruler Thimal b. Salih surrendered Aleppo to al-Mustansir.

447/1055–6: Fatimid occupation of Aleppo.

452/1060: Fatimid defeat at battle of al-Funaydiq.

454/1062: Thimal b. Salih died and provoked Mirdasid succession crisis.

457/1065: End of Mirdasid succession crisis.

461/1068–9: Romanus Diogenes IV's campaign into northern Syria.

463/1071: Battle of Manzikert. Alp Arslan's siege of Aleppo, which forced the Mirdasids into Seljuq allegiance. Atsiz captured Ramla, Jerusalem and most of Palestine.

468/1075–6: Atsiz captured Damascus.

471/1078–9: Failed siege of Damascus by Fatimid commander Nasr al-Dawla al-Juyushi, Tutush b. Alp Arslan took control of Damascus.

472/1080: Aleppo fell under control of the Uqaylid ruler Muslim b. Quraysh Sharaf al-Dawla.

477/1084: Sulayman b. Qutlumush captured Antioch.

478/1085: Muslim b. Quraysh Sharaf al-Dawla killed during battle against Sulayman b. Qutlumush.

479/1086: Tutush killed Sulayman b. Qutlamush in battle. Malik Shah took control of Aleppo, Edessa and Antioch, and appointed Aqsunqur, Buzan and Yaghi Siyan as governors of these settlements.

487/1095: Death of Aqsunqur and Buzan in battle against Tutush. Death of Tutush in battle against his nephew Berkyaruq at Isfahan. Ridwan and Duqaq took control of Aleppo and Damascus, respectively.

491/1098: The First Crusaders defeated the ‘armies of al-sham’ and captured Antioch. The Fatimids recaptured Jerusalem.

492/1099: The First Crusaders captured Jerusalem and defeated the Fatimids at the first battle of Ascalon.

505/1111: First campaign sent into bilad al-sham by Sultan Muhammad.

507/1113: Death of Ridwan b. Tutush.

509/1115: Second campaign sent into bilad al-sham by Sultan Muhammad.

512/1118: Najm al-Din Il-ghazi took control of Aleppo.

513/1119: Antiochene defeat against Aleppan forces at the battle of the Field of Blood.

516/1122: Death of Najm al-Din Il-ghazi.

518/1124–5: Baldwin II's failed siege of Aleppo.

518/1125: Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi took control of Aleppo.

519/1126: Assassination of Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi in Mosul.

522/1128: Zangi took control of Aleppo. The death of Tughtegin.

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Medieval Syria and the Onset of the Crusades
The Political World of Bilad al-Sham 1050-1128
 , pp. 238 - 239
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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