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The Battle of Antioch (1098) was a military engagement fought between the Christian forces of the First Crusade and a Muslim coalition led by Kerbogha, atabeg of Mosul. Kerbogha's goal was to reclaim Antioch from the Crusaders and affirm his position as a regional power.
A 13th-century depiction of battle outside Antioch from William of Tyre's Histoire d'Outremer, in the care of the British Museum. On Monday 28 June the crusaders emerged from the city gate, [53] with Raymond of Aguilers carrying the Holy Lance before them. Kerbogha hesitated against his generals' pleadings, hoping to attack them all at once ...
After the battle, the Parthians abandoned the region of Antioch, while the Romans wintered in the fortified camps of the Cyrrhestica to guard the fords of the Euphrates. In a letter as early as 8 October 51 BC, [ 11 ] Cicero reported that there were no more Parthians in the area and, although some armed bands had been observed, he judged them ...
Battle of Antioch (1097), a siege by the Crusaders against the Muslim-held city, part of the First Crusade; Battle of Antioch (1098), a battle between the Crusaders of Antioch and a Turkish coalition, part of the First Crusade; Battle of Antioch (1268), a siege in which the Mamelukes under Baibars captured the city of Antioch
The Battle of Antioch took place in 613 outside Antioch, Turkey between a Byzantine army led by Emperor Heraclius and a Persian Sassanid army under Generals Shahin and Shahrbaraz [citation needed] as part of the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628. The victorious Persians were able to maintain a hold on the recently taken Byzantine territory.
The Battle of the Lake of Antioch took place on 9 February 1098 during the First Crusade. As the Crusaders were besieging Antioch, word reached the Crusader camp that a large relief force led by Radwan, the Seljuq ruler of Aleppo, was on the way. Bohemond of Taranto gathered all remaining horses and marched in the night to ambush the Muslim ...
The Siege of Antioch was a battle fought between the Sasanian Empire and the Roman Empire in 260 AD. In this battle, Shapur I first besieged the city and was able to conquer Antioch for the second time by penetrating the city wals.
Antioch became the capital and court-city of the western Seleucid Empire under Antiochus I, its counterpart in the east being Seleucia; but its paramount importance dates from the battle of Ancyra (240 BC), which shifted the Seleucid centre of gravity from Anatolia, and led indirectly to the rise of Pergamon.