Zahir al-Din Toghtekin or Tughtekin (Modern Turkish: Tuğtekin; Arabicised epithet: ظاهر الدين طغتكين Zahir ad-Din Tughtikin; died February 12, 1128),...

sent envoys to Toghtekin in Damascus to argue against his making an alliance with the Egyptian vizier, Al-Afdal Shahanshah, but Toghtekin demanded Oultrejourdain...

his mentor (atabeg), Toghtekin, took control of Damascus and the Burid line of the Seljuq dynasty. Under Duqaq and Toghtekin, Damascus experienced stability...

Damascus during first crusade. After the death of Daqqaq in 6 June 1104, Toghtekin carried out his will by taking over the governorship of Damascus after...

regent) Toghtekin emerged as the ruler, but faced strong opposition. Baldwin promised to support Duqaq's young brother Irtash against Toghtekin. His intervention...

guest of Toghtekin, atabeg of Damascus. He was replaced at Mosul by al-Bursuqi, who himself would be a victim of the Assassins in 1126. Toghtekin's son, the...

Jerusalem, resulting in the slaughter of the Armenian participants. In 1113 Toghtekin of Damascus, tired of the ravages by the Christian forces against his...

two brothers. Duqaq then imprisoned Irtash for nine years in Baalbek. Toghtekin, atabeg of Damascus, elevated the twelve-year-old Irtash to emir after...

12th century, as subjects of the Seljuk Empire. The first Burid ruler, Toghtekin, began as a servant to the Seljuk ruler of Damascus, Duqaq. Following...

contributed to additional destruction. However, in the year 1120, Zahir ad-Din Toghtekin, atabeg of Damascus ordered a garrison of forty men to build up a fort...

his nephew Roger of Salerno. In May 1113, Mawdud invaded Galilee with Toghtekin, atabeg of Damascus. On 28 June this force surprised Baldwin, chasing...

II 1104 Muhi ad-Din Baktāsh (Ertaş) 1104 Damascus seized by the Burid Toghtekin The Seljuk line, already having been deprived of any significant power...

II of Jerusalem and the Seljuk Emirate of Damascus, which was ruled by Toghtekin. The Crusaders defeated the Muslim army in the field but failed in their...

Boutoumites Seljuks Kilij Arslan Yaghi-Siyan X Kerbogha Duqaq Ridwan Toghtekin Janah ad-Dawla Fatimids Iftikhar al-Dawla Al-Afdal Shahanshah Strength...

Damascus and Aleppo respectively, but their atabegs, Janah ad-Dawla and Toghtekin were in control. Ridwan's retainer Sokman ben Artuq held Jerusalem; Ridwan's...

1104 before he was released by Toghtekin. He was replaced by Toghtekin’s son Buri. In exchange for Baalbek, Toghtekin granted al-Taj the fortress of Salkhad...

Gümüshtegin until he was deposed for conspiring against the usurper Toghtekin in 1110. Toghtekin then gave the town to his son Buri. Upon Buri's succession to...

local ruler Toghtekin. The murder is presumed to have been carried out by the Order of Assassins, probably with the collusion of either Toghtekin or Fakhr...

of their masters. There was an atabeg dynasty in Damascus founded by Toghtekin (1103–1128). Other atabeg "kingdoms" sprang up to the north east, founded...

from the Turcoman prince Ilghazi of Mardin. In January 1124, Balak and Toghtekin, the Burid atabeg of Damascus, breached Azaz's defenses, but were repulsed...

prince of Galilee in 1105/1106. Gervase was captured during a raid by Toghtekin, atabeg of Damascus, who had Gervase executed after Baldwin I refused...

recorded that Robert was befriended by atabeg (or regent) of Damascus, Toghtekin, and they agreed not to attack each other's lands. The Seljuk general...

Tyre. The seaport of Tyre, now in Lebanon, was part of the territory of Toghtekin, the atabeg of Damascus. The Latin army was led by the Patriarch of Antioch...

fortified; Palmyra was then ruled by Toghtekin, the Burid atabeg of Damascus, who appointed his nephew governor. Toghtekin's nephew was killed by rebels, and...

army of Duqaq, the Seljuk ruler of Damascus, together with his father Toghtekin. When the latter took power after Duqaq's death, Buri acted as regent...

Homs and elsewhere had joined Toghtekin's troops in the Battle of Marj al-Saffar against the Franks in 1126. Toghtekin thus welcomed Bahram. Abu Ali Tahir...

where the Atabegdom of Mosul was formed. Following the death in 1128 of Toghtekin, atabeg of Damascus, a power vacuum threatened to open Syria to renewed...

in his approaches to other nobles in the region and Duqaq of Damascus, Toghtekin, Kerbogha, the sultans of Baghdad and Persia, and the emir of Homs all...

withdrew without a fight. Later, al-Bursuqi (who had received troops also by Toghtekin of Damascus) besieged the town of Azaz, to the north of Aleppo, in territory...

troops to the Danube frontier at Paristrion. Summer – Seljuk forces under Toghtekin make extensive raids into Galilee. King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, in reprisal...