High Middle Ages · Middle East · Politics
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Nur al-Din succeeds Zengi
September 14, 1146
When his father Zengi was murdered in his tent by a disgruntled Frankish eunuch, the thirty-year-old Nur al-Din rode for Aleppo and claimed his share of the inheritance. He would prove a more patient and pious adversary than his father - the man who set in motion the reunification of Muslim Syria.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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