- emirate. The
Burids ruled the city
until 1154, when it was
taken by the
ruler of Aleppo, Nur ed-Din,
founder of the
Zengid dynasty. The
Burids lost to the...
- 1104, his
mentor (atabeg), Toghtekin, took
control of
Damascus and the
Burid line of the
Seljuq dynasty.
Under Duqaq and Toghtekin,
Damascus experienced...
- to
Damascus after his
father Taj al-Muluk Buri
succeeded Toghtekin. The
Burids transformed the
Temple of Bel into a
citadel in 1132,
fortifying the city...
-
Crusade besieged the city in 1148, Nur al-Din
forced Mu'in al-Din and the
Burids into a
reluctant alliance. Soon Nur al-Din
demanded the city be
handed over...
- al-Din
Zengi who
besieged and
captured the city of Hama, then held by the
Burids. At the
beginning of 1130
Zengi desired to gain
political legitimacy in...
-
Tutush II 1104 Muhi ad-Din Baktāsh (Ertaş) 1104
Damascus seized by the
Burid Toghtekin The
Seljuk line,
already having been
deprived of any significant...
- the ********ins in 1126. Toghtekin's son, the
great Buri,
founder of the
Burid dynasty,
would fall
victim to the ********ins in 1131,
dying a year later...
- Capital:
Nakhchivan (1136–1175),
Hamadan (1176–1186),
Tabriz (1187–1225)
Burids in Syria. Capital:
Damascus Zengids in the
Jazira region (Upper Mesopotamia)...
-
Baldwin was
defeated outside the
great city in 1129. Damascus,
ruled by the
Burid dynasty,
later allied with King Fulk when
Zengi besieged the city in 1139...
- was a
Turkoman slave of
Burid emirs. Mu'in ad-Din was
originally a
Mamluk in the army of Toghtekin, the
founder of the
Burid Dynasty of Damascus. When...
