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Imad al-Din Zengi (Arabic: عماد الدین زنكي; c. 1085 – 14 September 1146), also romanized as Zangi, Zengui, Zenki, and Zanki, was a Turkoman atabeg of the Seljuk Empire, [3] who ruled Mosul, Aleppo, Hama, and, later, Edessa. He was the namesake and founder of the Zengid dynasty of atabegs.
Zangi did not offer long resistance. He was unpopular with his subjects and wished to return to his Sinjar, the city he governed previously. An exchange was negotiated where Zangi would hand over Aleppo to Saladin in return for the restoration of his control of Sinjar, Nusaybin, and Raqqa. Zangi would hold these territories as Saladin's vassals ...
Zangi or Zengi may refer to: People. Imad al-Din Zengi (1085–1146), Turkish noble Zengid dynasty, a Muslim dynasty of Oghuz Turkic origin;
Nur ad-Din was the second son of Imad al-Din Zengi, the Turkoman atabeg of Aleppo and Mosul, [4] who was a devoted enemy of the crusader presence in Syria.After the assassination of his father in 1146, Nur ad-Din and his older brother Saif ad-Din Ghazi I divided the kingdom between themselves, with Nur ad-Din governing Aleppo and Saif ad-Din Ghazi establishing himself in Mosul.
The Swahili coast The Bantu inhabited areas. Zanj (Arabic: زَنْج, adj. زنجي, Zanjī; from Persian: زنگ, romanized: Zang) [1] [2] is a term used by medieval Muslim geographers to refer to both a certain portion of Southeast Africa (primarily the Swahili Coast) and to its Bantu inhabitants. [3]
In 1144, Joscelin was able to make an alliance with Kara Arslan, the Artuqid ruler of Diyarbakır, against the growing power and influence of Zengi.Joscelin marched out of Edessa with almost his entire army to support Kara Aslan against Aleppo.
In 1146 Imad al-Din Zengi was besieging the fortress of Qal'at Ja'bar when he was assassinated on September 15 by one of his servants who wanted to escape punishment. His forces were scattered, but Imad ad-Din Zengi's two sons were able to regain control and to divide informally the empire: Sayf al-Din succeeded him in Mosul and the Jazirah (northern Iraq) while Nur al-Din succeeded in Aleppo.
Abu al-Fath Ismail bin Nur al-Din Mahmud bin Imad al-Din bin Aq Sunqur al-Zangi (Arabic: أبو الفتوح إسماعيل بن نور الدين محمود بن عماد الدين بن آق سنقر الزنكي) commonly known as As-Salih Ismaʿil al-Malik (Arabic: الصالح إسماعيل) (Full name: (1163–1181) was the Zengid emir of Damascus and emir of Aleppo in 1174, the son of ...
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