High Middle Ages · Middle East · War
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Battle of Inab
June 29, 1149
Nur al-Din destroyed Prince Raymond of Antioch's army in a swampy meadow east of the Orontes and had his head sent to the caliph in Baghdad packed in silver. The County of Antioch lost most of its hinterland in a single afternoon and never fully recovered. Raymond's widow Constance was left to defend the principality with a handful of knights and a desperate appeal to the king of Jerusalem.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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