Shaizar or Shayzar (Arabic: شيزر; in modern Arabic Saijar; Hellenistic name: Larissa in Syria, Λάρισσα εν Συρία in Greek) is a town in northern Syria...

The siege of Shaizar took place from April 28 to May 21, 1138. The allied forces of the Byzantine Empire, Principality of Antioch and County of Edessa...

author, faris (knight), and diplomat from the Banu Munqidh dynasty of Shaizar in northern Syria. His life coincided with the rise of several medieval...

36°34′01″E / 35.266707°N 36.566952°E / 35.266707; 36.566952 In the Battle of Shaizar in 1111, a Crusader army commanded by King Baldwin I of Jerusalem and a...

Kafartab are taken by assault. While the Byzantines besiege the city of Shaizar, the Crusader allies Prince Raymond of Poitiers of Antioch and Count Joscelin...

participation in the Second Crusade, the failed 1157–1158 siege of the Syrian city Shaizar, and the 1164 invasion of Egypt), he had a rare and distinguished record...

emir of Shaizar, sent envoys to him, seeking his assistance against Tancred. Mawdud and Toghtekin then led their large Turkish army to Shaizar. By this...

Banias in the Golan Heights Caesarea Magna, formerly Larissa in Syria, now Shaizar, an ancient Roman city and modern Syrian town Caesarea in Cappadocia, modern...

winter of 1157–1158 Baldwin led an expedition into Syria, where he besieged Shaizar. The expedition was forced to withdraw when a dispute arose between Thierry...

armies of the Byzantine emperor and the Crusader princes laid siege to Shaizar, but they were turned back by Zengi's forces a month later. In May 1138...

extortion from Antioch's Muslim neighbours provoked the inconclusive battle of Shaizar between the Franks and an Abbasid army led by the governor of Mosul, Mawdud...

patriarch of Antioch. This was so even after a papal edict to the contrary. Shaizar As a vassal of the kings of Jerusalem, Bertrand of Tripoli was drawn into...

captured Aleppo, Homs, and Shaizar for him. The following year the Byzantines and Franks jointly besieged Aleppo and Shaizar but could not take the towns...

create a Christian buffer state centered on Aleppo but also including Shaizar, Homs and Hama. Due to the dangers involved the Byzantines were content...

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[clarification needed] who had held it on behalf of the Banu Munqidh of Shaizar, and was later refortified by Rashid al-Din Sinan. Masyaf and the surrounding...

Crusaders had successfully used this method of fighting in the Battle of Shaizar (1111) and the Battle of Bosra (1147). For their part, Saladin's soldiers...

John to press the Siege of Shaizar.[citation needed] The city was taken, but the citadel defied assault. The Emir of Shaizar offered to pay a large indemnity...

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dice and feasting instead of helping to press the siege of the city of Shaizar. The Crusader Princes were suspicious of each other and of John, and neither...

Raymond agreed with the emperor that if he was capable of capturing Aleppo, Shaizar, and Homs, he would exchange Antioch for them. John went on to attack Aleppo...

powers in Syria from 1137 to 1138, including at the sieges of Aleppo and Shaizar. In 1143, the Templars also began taking part in the Reconquista in Iberia...

ruler) of Shaizar, sent envoys to him, seeking his assistance against Tancred. Mawdud lifted the siege of Turbessel and moved to help Shaizar. Toghtekin...

was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. Battle of Shaizar: Sultan Muhammad I Tapar appoints Mawdud ibn Altuntash, Turkic governor...

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ruler) of Shaizar, sent envoys to him, seeking his assistance against Tancred. Mawdud lifted the siege of Turbessel and moved to help Shaizar. Mawdud's...

(19 mi) southeast of Afamiya. The Turkish commander soon made his camp at Shaizar, only 12 kilometers northwest of Hama. Baldwin immediately mobilized 500...

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(Al-Rastan) Balanea (Baniyas) Epiphania in Syria (Hama) Larissa in Syria (Shaizar) Mariamme (Maryamin) Raphanea Seleucobelus (Seleucopolis) History of Syria...

their cities to the Franks. On 14 January Sultan ibn Munqidh, emir of Shaizar, dispatched an embassy to Raymond IV of Toulouse, one of the leaders of...