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The capital of the crusader County of Edessa falls to Imad ad-Din Zengi, the atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo.
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Religious wars of the High Middle Ages
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County of Edessa
Crusader state in the Levant from 1098 to 1144
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Siege of Edessa (1144)
Fall of the capital to the Zengids
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Imad al-Din Zengi
Atabeg of Mosul, Aleppo, Hama and Edessa, Mesopotamia
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Atabeg
Hereditary title of nobility of Turkic origin
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Mosul
City in Nineveh, Iraq
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Aleppo
City in Aleppo Governorate, Syria
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December 24
Day of the year
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