The Fall of Saruj in 1145 saw the main surviving Frankish fortress of Edessa fall to the
Zengids
The Zengid dynasty was a Muslim dynasty of Oghuz Turkic origin, which ruled parts of the Levant and Upper Mesopotamia on behalf of the Seljuk Empire and eventually seized control of Egypt in 1169. In 1174 the Zengid state extended from Tripoli to ...
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[Frankopan, Peter., Venning, Timothy.]
A Chronology of the Crusades.
United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2015.
Following his great victory in the
Siege of Edessa in 1144
Imad al-Din Zengi
Imad al-Din Zengi ( ar, عماد الدین زنكي; – 14 September 1146), also romanized as Zangi, Zengui, Zenki, and Zanki, was a Turkmen atabeg, who ruled Mosul, Aleppo, Hama, and, later, Edessa. He was the namesake of the Zengid dy ...
marched towards
Saruj, the main surviving fortress of Edessa situated east of the Euphrates.
[Runciman, Steven.]
A History of the Crusades: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100-1187.
United States: Harper & Row, 1965. The Frankish fortress of Saruj fell to Zengi in January 1145.
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Battles involving the Zengid dynasty
Battles involving the Seljuk Empire