Imad al-Din Zengi (Arabic: عماد الدین زنكي; c. 1085 – 14 September 1146), also romanized as Zangi, Zengui, Zenki, and Zanki, was a Turkoman atabeg of...

Look up Zangi or Zengi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Zangi or Zengi may refer to: Imad al-Din Zengi (1085–1146), Turkish noble Zengid dynasty, a...

Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd Zengī (نور الدين محمود زنگي; February 1118 – 15 May 1174), commonly known as Nur ad-Din (lit. 'Light of the Faith' in Arabic), was a...

decided to name Zengi, son of Aq Sunqur al-Hajib, Seljuk Governor of Aleppo, as the new Seljuk atabeg of Mosul. Before this nomination, Zengi had been a successful...

was led by Imad al-Din Zengi who besieged and captured the city of Hama, then held by the Burids. At the beginning of 1130 Zengi desired to gain political...

besieged again by Zengi. In 1138, Shihab ad-Din appointed Mu'in ad-Din atabeg of Damascus and gave him the title Isfahsalar. Later in 1138, Zengi negotiated...

December 1144, resulting in the fall of the capital of the County of Edessa to Zengi, the atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo. This event was the catalyst for the Second...

He was the eldest son of Imad al-Din Zengi of Mosul, and the elder brother of Nur ad-Din. In 1146 Imad al-Din Zengi was besieging the fortress of Qal'at...

al-Malik al-Adil Zengi Ibn Moudud (Arabic: أبو الفتح عماد الدين "الملك العادل" زنكي بن مودود; died 1197), better known as Imad ad-Din Zengi II, was an emir...

Prince Mohammad Shammaa Zengi III (Mohammad Bin Abdullah Bin Mohammad Zengi, 1883–1954; Arabic: محمد بن عبد الله بن محمد شماع الزنكي ) was a member and...

1169. He was the son of Imad al-Din Zengi and brother and successor of Sayf al-Din Ghazi I. At the death of Zengi, his possessions were divided between...

seizing Ba'rin Castle. In 1137, Zengi invaded Tripoli, killing the count Pons of Tripoli. Fulk intervened, but Zengi's troops captured Pons' successor...

undertaken by Imad al-Din Zengi who laid siege to the city in August and captured it in October. In 1139 Imad al-Din Zengi marched south of Aleppo to...

Prince Akram Shammaa Al Zengi (Mohammad Akram Bin Mostafa Bin Mohammad Shammaa Al Zengi III; Arabic: محمد اكرم شماع بن مصطفى بن محمد شماع الزنكي; August...

the population. In the meantime, the mother of Mahmud, since remarried in Zengi, called her husband for help, who ran hoping to seize Damascus, but the...

Kirejtomma is an extinct genus of ommatid beetle, known from the early Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber of Myanmar. The type and only known...

al-Din Zengi laid siege to al-Atharib in spring and defeated an army led against him to relieve the town commanded by King Baldwin. Imad al-Din Zengi sought...

1127-1146. As son of Mahmud II, he was appointed governor of Mosul in 1127 with Zengi as his atabeg. While governor in name only, Alp aspired to replace Ghiyath...

The Minbar of the al-Aqsa Mosque, also known as the Minbar of Saladin, was a notable historic minbar (pulpit in a mosque) inside the al-Aqsa Mosque in...

ruler of Amida, and other Turkmen chiefs against Zengi; but the combined army was defeated by Zengi at Saruj, and the atabeg occupied the city along with...

the Ahal Region of Turkmenistan. The site is famed for the Mausoleum of Zengi Baba. Upon construction of the Karakum Canal to its north in the 1960s,...

he allied with Antioch and Byzantine emperor John II Komnenos to attack Zengi, atabeg of Aleppo, and the campaign ended with the unsuccessful Siege of...

a siege in 1131 and was succeeded by his son Joscelin II. By this time, Zengi had united Aleppo and Mosul and began to threaten Edessa. Meanwhile, Joscelin...

in response to the fall of the County of Edessa in 1144 to the forces of Zengi. The county had been founded during the First Crusade (1096–1099) by King...

night they left). They joined Nur ad-Din Zengi's army, and Shirkuh served under Nur ad-Din Zengi who succeeded Zengi in Mosul. Shirkuh was later given Homs...

Jerusalem to resist Zengi's forces. Consequently, Zengi withdrew his army and focused on campaigns against northern Syria. In 1144, Zengi conquered Edessa...

world, Zengi ruled northern Syria from the cities of Mosul and Aleppo, and desired to add Damascus in the south to his control. In 1144, Zengi captured...

Following the capture of Edessa in 1144, the Zengid ruler, Imad al-din Zengi, wanted to exploit his victory by clearing the remaining Crusader fortresses...

in 1135 when Imad al-Din Zengi staged a successful campaign against the Principality of Antioch. In 1135 Imad al-Din Zengi conducted a major campaign...

segregation secluded in a harem. Her son allegedly invited Imad al-Din Zengi to take power in Damascus. The army commanders came to her and asked her...