- The
Burid dynasty (Arabic: الدولة البورية Romanized: Al-Dawla al-Buria) or the
Emirate of
Damascus (Arabic: إمارة دمشق Romanized:
Imarat Dimashq) was...
-
Baldwin was
defeated outside the
great city in 1129. Damascus,
ruled by the
Burid dynasty,
later allied with King Fulk when
Zengi besieged the city in 1139...
- This is a list of
rulers of
Damascus from
ancient times to the present.
General context:
History of Damascus.
Rezon I (c. 950 BC)
Tabrimmon Ben-Hadad I...
- 1104, his
mentor (atabeg), Toghtekin, took
control of
Damascus and the
Burid line of the
Seljuq dynasty.
Under Duqaq and Toghtekin,
Damascus experienced...
- was a
Turkoman slave of
Burid emirs. Mu'in ad-Din was
originally a
Mamluk in the army of Toghtekin, the
founder of the
Burid Dynasty of Damascus. When...
- in 1138, and
ruled the city on
behalf of a
series of
young emirs of the
Burid dynasty.
During this time, Damascus'
chief rivals to the north,
Aleppo and...
- (died 1169) was the
Burid emir of
Damascus from 1140 to 1154. He was the
eldest son of
Jamal ad-Din
Muhammad and the last
Burid ruler of the Emirate...
- when the town was
besieged in 1146 by Mu'in al-Din Unur, the
atabeg of the
Burid emir of Damascus,
Ayyub surrendered Baalbek and
retired to Damascus. Shirkuh...
- who was emir of
Damascus from 1104 to 1128. He was the
founder of the
Burid dynasty of Damascus.
Toghtekin was a
junior officer to
Tutush I, Seljuq...
- the ********ins in 1126. Toghtekin's son, the
great Buri,
founder of the
Burid dynasty,
would fall
victim to the ********ins in 1131,
dying a year later...
