Zengi’s move against Damascus sparks a recognition …
Years: 1140 - 1140
Zengi’s move against Damascus sparks a recognition of their common danger and results in a Jerusalem-Damascus alliance, a kind of diplomacy by now common with the second-generation Franks.
Fulk helps the Muslims of Damascus, under the vizier Mu'in ad-Din Unur, to ward off Zengi's armies in 1140.
Locations
People
Groups
- Islam
- Muslims, Sunni
- Turkmen people
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Antioch, Principality of
- Edessa, County of
- Jerusalem, Latin Kingdom of
- Damascus, Burid Emirate of
- Tripoli, County of
- Mosul, Zengi's Emirate of
