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Siege of Edessa (1144)

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Edessa · Şanlıurfa · Upper Mesopotamia

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

From 28 November to 24 December 1144, the atabeg Imad al-Din Zengi besieged and captured Edessa, capital of the first crusader state. Its fall shocked Latin Christendom and became the immediate catalyst for the Second Crusade.

Belligerents2

County of Edessa (Crusaders)
Zengid Emirate (Mosul/Aleppo)

Sources

Wikipedia: Siege of Edessa (1144)
Britannica: Siege of Edessa
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Siege of Edessa (1144) (1144). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/siege-of-edessa-1144 · Sources & methodology