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Significant1119

Battle of the Field of Blood

near Sarmada · Ruj Valley · between Aleppo and Antioch · Syria

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

On 28 June 1119, the Artuqid ruler Ilghazi of Mardin annihilated the field army of the Principality of Antioch under Roger of Salerno near the pass of Sarmada in northern Syria. Roger was killed and the crusader force was nearly destroyed, severely weakening Antioch.

Belligerents2

  • Principality of Antioch
  • Artuqids of Aleppo

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Battle of the Field of Blood
  2. The Medieval Review (Morton, The Field of Blood)
  3. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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