Edessa (/əˈdɛsə/; Ancient Greek: Ἔδεσσα, romanized: Édessa) was an ancient city (polis) in Upper Mesopotamia, in what is now Urfa or Şanlıurfa, Turkey...

year left Joscelin II of Edessa with no powerful allies to help defend Edessa. Zengi came north to begin the first siege of Edessa, arriving on 28 November...

were established in the Holy Land: the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the County of Edessa, the Principality of Antioch, and the County of Tripoli. The Crusader presence...

translation. ISBN 0-7546-3710-7 Beaumont, André Alden. "Albert von Aachen and the County of Edessa", in Louis J. Paetow, ed. The Crusades and Other Historical...

his doorstep. This mattered because the two sides had different goals; Alexius simply wanted help in retaking Byzantine lands lost to the Seljuk Turks...

Philaret of Ichalka, Ivanovo (1913) Saint Kallinikos (Poulos) of Edessa, Metropolitan of Edessa, Pella and Almopia (el) (1984) New Hieromartyr Joseph (Baranov)...

of Alexius I Comnenus that had developed during the First Crusade, although he was also critical of some of the crusaders' dealings with Alexius. He...

Constantinople (1203) by the Fourth Crusade, in which Alexius IV was able to usurp the throne after Alexius III fled to Thrace. 1204 – April: Siege of Constantinople...

autocephalous archdiocese, and around 1084, it was made a metropolitan see under Alexius I Comnenus. The Fourth Crusade brought Latin control, on the strength of...

Byzantine armed forces from Christoupolis under the command of Caesar Alexius Moselie stopped Bulgarian raids in the plain of Philippoi. At about 830-840...

religious enemy created a powerful motive to respond to Byzantine Emperor Alexius I's call for holy war to defend Christendom and to recapture the lost lands...

Strategopoulos Alexios Tzamplakon Alexios Xiphias Al-Halawiyah Madrasa Alexius of Rome Alexius Slav Ali ibn Yahya al-Armani Ali ibn Yusuf ibn Umar Alice-Mary...

that centers on the relationship between Crusading forces and emperor Alexius I Comnenus. Chivalry (1842), in Encyclopædia Britannica, 7th Edition. Volume...

assailed the Byzantines, defeating them at the Battle of Manzikert. Emperor Alexius I asked for aid from Pope Urban II (1088–1099) for help against Islamic...

Edwin Wells (1875–1943). Alexius, Saint. Saint Alexius, or Alexius of Rome, was a fourth-century monk. The Life of St. Alexius (1878). Edited by English...

and in the Whittemore Collection. Vol. 4. Alexius I to Michael VIII, 1081 - 1261 : Part 1. Alexius I to Alexius V : (1081 - 1204). Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton...

pp. 74–90. Chronicle of Edessa. The Chronicle of Edessa, or Chronicon edesanum, is an anonymous record of the history of Edessa written in the mid-6th...

Byzantine emperors became protectors of the Christians. 1034 Patriarch Alexius I Studites writes the first complete Studite Typikon, for a monastery he...