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Shaizar or
Shayzar (Arabic: شيزر; in
modern Arabic Saijar; ****enistic name:
Larissa in Syria, Λάρισσα εν Συρία in Gr****) is a town in
northern Syria...
- took over the
fortress of
Shayzar in 1081 and made it
their headquarters for the
remainder of
their rule. The
capture of
Shayzar was the
culmination of a...
- al-Dawla
whose sister was
married to Ibn Munqidh's uncle, the
ruler of
Shayzar. T****o, The
Liberation of Jerusalem,
canto 3.60 says that he met Godfrey...
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being shared between the ********inated
Janah al-Dawlah, the
Munqidhites of
Shayzar, and
Khalaf ibn Mula'ib, the
Fatimid governor of
Afamiyya (Qal'at al-Mudhiq)...
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force from
Hamdanid Aleppo and Byzantine-held Antioch. In 993 he took
Shayzar and in 994 he
began the
siege of Aleppo. In May 995, however,
Basil II...
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Kurdish Christians made up a
minority of the army of the
fortress city of
Shayzar, near Hama, Syria. The ****ids–Mkhargrdzeli, an Armenian–Georgian dynasty...
- Hama
Governorate Abu
Qubays castle Salamiyyah Roman bridge in
Mahardah Shayzar Hama "Syria Provinces". www.statoids.com. "Syria: Governorates,
Major Cities...
- of
expanding it at the
expense of the
nearby Muslim emirates of Homs,
Shayzar, and Damascus. In
return for the
confirmation of his claims,
William Jordan...
- ibn
Munqidh the
feudal lands around Shayzar as an iqṭāʿ for
supporting his
conquest of Aleppo, but the town of
Shayzar itself was
controlled by the Byzantines...
- al-Shayzarī al-Ṭabrīzī al-ʿAdawī al-Nabarāwī.
Given the
prominence of
Shayzar in his work, al-Shayzarī is his most
likely nisba.
Little is
known of al-Shayzarī's...
