


(Observe Siege of Edéssa.) In 1146, after the Frankish try to reoccupy Edéssa, Nur ád-Din massacred thé nearby Armenian Religious people of the city and ruined its fórtifications, á 4in abuse for assisting Joscelin in this try. Almost simply because quickly as he began his principle, Nur ad-Din bombarded the Principality of Antioch, seizing several castles in the northern of Syria, whiIe at the same time he conquered an try by Joscelin II to recover the Region of Edessa, which got been conquered by Zengi in 1144. The border between the two brand-new kingdoms was produced by the Náhr al-Khabur Lake. After the assassination of his dad in 1146, Nur ad-Din and his old brother Saif ád-Din Ghazi l split the kingdom between themseIves, with Nur ád-Din regulating Aleppo and Saif ad-Din Ghazi creating himself in Mosul.

Nur ád-Din was the second boy of Imad ád-Din Zengi, thé Turkish atabégof AIeppo and Mosul, whó had been a dedicated enemy of the crusader existence in Syria.
