- 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...
- 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...
- 1104, his
mentor (atabeg), Toghtekin, took
control of
Damascus and the
Burid line of the
Seljuq dynasty.
Under Duqaq and Toghtekin,
Damascus experienced...
- death, Buri
acted as
regent and
later became atabeg himself. Damascus's
Burid dynasty was
named for him. Buri is
mentioned for the
first time in 1099...
- year 498 AH (1104 AD), so
Toghtekin then ****umed
power and
established the
Burid family,
which would rule
Damascus for next half century.[citation needed]...
- 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...
- was
finished by the
Seljuq ruler Tutush I. The
emirs of the
subsequent Burid and
Zengid dynasties carried out
modifications and
added new structures...
