The Seljuqs have wrested Syria, Palestine and …
Years: 1108 - 1251
The Seljuqs have wrested Syria, Palestine and the Hejaz from the Fatimids, who, having lost both Crete and Cyprus to Byzantium in the 960s, now hold only Egypt.
The disintegration of the great Seljuq empire soon begins, however.
Control of Palestine is contested between the European Franks of the First and Second Crusades and the Zengid dynasty of Syria and Iraq.
Groups
- Arab people
- Oghuz Turks
- Islam
- Egypt in the Middle Ages
- Holy Roman Empire
- Fatimid Caliphate
- France, (Capetian) Kingdom of
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Jerusalem, Latin Kingdom of
- Palestine, Frankish (Outremer)
- Zengid dynasty
- Sicily, Kingdom of
- Egypt, Ayyubid Sultanate of
- Sicily, Hohenstaufen Kingdom of
- Palestine, Mamluk
