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The Battle of the Dog River was fought in 1100 between Crusader forces and the Seljuk Turks near the Nahr al-Kalb river in what is now modern day Lebanon. The Crusaders were led by Baldwin of Boulogne, who had been the Count of Edessa while the Turks were led by Duqaq of Damascus.
The Battle of Dorylaeum took place during the First Crusade on 1 July 1097 between the crusader forces and the Seljuk Turks, near the city of Dorylaeum in Anatolia.Though the Turkish forces of Kilij Arslan nearly destroyed the Crusader contingent of Bohemond, other Crusaders arrived just in time to reverse the course of the battle.
To make the situation worse for the Crusaders, al-Dawla poisoned all the water wells in the surrounding area, and cut down all trees outside Jerusalem. On June 7, 1099, the Crusaders reached the outer fortifications of Jerusalem, which had been recaptured from the Seljuk Turks by the Egyptian Fatimids only the year before. The city was guarded ...
The show depicts the rise of the Seljuks under Sultan Malik-Shah I and his son Ahmad Sanjar, later Sultan of the Seljuk Empire. It focuses on their struggles and battles against Hassan-i Sabbah, leader of the Order of Assassins (dubbed the "Batinis"), the Byzantine Empire and fellow rival states that seek to weaken the Seljuks.
Sultan Seljuk Empire Barkiyaruq [17] 1097 Battle of Dorylaeum: Dorylaeum: Kilij Arslan I, Gazi Gümüshtigin: Crusaders: Bohemond of Taranto Robert Curthose Godfrey of Bouillon Adhemar of Le Puy: Crusader victory [18] 1107 Battle of Khabur river near Mosul, Iraq Kilij Arslan I: Muhammad I Tapar: Muhammad I Tapar [19] 1115 Battle of Sarmin ...
To his disappointment, the Caliph can't do anything because real power is in the hands of the Seljuk commanders. Around 1100, Radwan was the Seljuk ruler of Aleppo. al-Khashshab preached jihad against the Crusaders near Aleppo. Mawdud and Toghtekin join forces at the Battle of al-Sannabra (1113). In 1144, Imad al-Din Zengi undertakes the Siege ...
The Seljuk Turks at their greatest extent, in 1092. To the North East in North Western China (Altay Mountains) lies a probable origin of the Turks. [5] The decades after the death of the Byzantine emperor Basil II (r. 976–1025) saw a long series of crises and a severe weakening of imperial authority and military power. This included a ...
The Seljuk Empire united the fractured political landscape in the non-Arab eastern parts of the Muslim world and played a key role in both the First and Second Crusades; it also bore witness to in the creation and expansion of multiple artistic movements during this period [19] By the 1140s, the Seljuk Empire began to decline in power and ...