Shaizar or Shayzar (Arabic: شيزر; in modern Arabic Saijar; Hellenistic name: Larissa in Syria, Λάρισσα εν Συρία in Greek) is a town in northern Syria...

The siege of Shaizar took place from April 28 to May 21, 1138. The allied forces of the Byzantine Empire, Principality of Antioch and County of Edessa...

36°34′01″E / 35.266707°N 36.566952°E / 35.266707; 36.566952 In the Battle of Shaizar in 1111, a Crusader army commanded by King Baldwin I of Jerusalem and a...

author, faris (knight), and diplomat from the Banu Munqidh dynasty of Shaizar in northern Syria. His life coincided with the rise of several medieval...

Banias in the Golan Heights Caesarea Magna, formerly Larissa in Syria, now Shaizar, an ancient Roman city and modern Syrian town Caesarea in Cappadocia, modern...

participation in the Second Crusade, the failed 1157–1158 siege of the Syrian city Shaizar, and the 1164 invasion of Egypt), he had a rare and distinguished record...

winter of 1157–1158 Baldwin led an expedition into Syria, where he besieged Shaizar. The expedition was forced to withdraw when a dispute arose between Thierry...

patriarch of Antioch. This was so even after a papal edict to the contrary. Shaizar As a vassal of the kings of Jerusalem, Bertrand of Tripoli was drawn into...

ruler) of Shaizar, sent envoys to him, seeking his assistance against Tancred. Mawdud lifted the siege of Turbessel and moved to help Shaizar. Mawdud's...

[clarification needed] who had held it on behalf of the Banu Munqidh of Shaizar, and was later refortified by Rashid al-Din Sinan. Masyaf and the surrounding...

armies of the Byzantine emperor and the Crusader princes laid siege to Shaizar, but they were turned back by Zengi's forces a month later. In May 1138...

(link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Battle of Shaizar: Sultan Muhammad I Tapar appoints Mawdud ibn Altuntash, Turkic governor...

extortion from Antioch's Muslim neighbours provoked the inconclusive battle of Shaizar between the Franks and an Abbasid army led by the governor of Mosul, Mawdud...

John to press the Siege of Shaizar.[citation needed] The city was taken, but the citadel defied assault. The Emir of Shaizar offered to pay a large indemnity...

create a Christian buffer state centered on Aleppo but also including Shaizar, Homs and Hama. Due to the dangers involved the Byzantines were content...

capital of Hamah (Hamaih-Epiphaneia), and the ancient site of Larissa (Shaizar). This is where the river enters the Ghab plain. Further downstream, on...

Raymond agreed with the emperor that if he was capable of capturing Aleppo, Shaizar, and Homs, he would exchange Antioch for them. John went on to attack Aleppo...

captured Aleppo, Homs, and Shaizar for him. The following year the Byzantines and Franks jointly besieged Aleppo and Shaizar but could not take the towns...

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(Al-Rastan) Balanea (Baniyas) Epiphania in Syria (Hama) Larissa in Syria (Shaizar) Mariamme (Maryamin) Raphanea Seleucobelus (Seleucopolis) History of Syria...

atabeg of Aleppo, and the campaign ended with the unsuccessful Siege of Shaizar of 1138. Upon returning to Antioch, Joscelin II exploited local sentiment...

ruler) of Shaizar, sent envoys to him, seeking his assistance against Tancred. Mawdud lifted the siege of Turbessel and moved to help Shaizar. Toghtekin...

powers in Syria from 1137 to 1138, including at the sieges of Aleppo and Shaizar. In 1143, the Templars also began taking part in the Reconquista in Iberia...

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2nd Ramla 1st Tripoli 1st Acre Harran 3rd Ramla Artah Beirut Sidon 1st Shaizar Al-Sannabra Sarmin Ager Sanguinis Hab Jaffa and Tyre Yibneh 1st Aleppo...

Crusaders had successfully used this method of fighting in the Battle of Shaizar (1111) and the Battle of Bosra (1147). For their part, Saladin's soldiers...

historian Steven Runciman, Bohemond's attack against the Munqidhites of Shaizar, which was recorded by Usama ibn Munqidh, also occurred during this period...

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2nd Ramla 1st Tripoli 1st Acre Harran 3rd Ramla Artah Beirut Sidon 1st Shaizar Al-Sannabra Sarmin Ager Sanguinis Hab Jaffa and Tyre Yibneh 1st Aleppo...

the Latin possessions which lay east of the Orontes between Aleppo and Shaizar." The attack on Edessa in 1110 failed to take the city. In 1111, Mawdud...