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Turning point · The Crusades, 1095–1291
The fall of Edessa
24 Dec 1144 — Zengi, atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo, storms the first and most exposed crusader state. Its loss shocks Europe into the Second Crusade and gives the Muslim counter-crusade its first martyr-city and its first hero.
This is one scene of Chapter 5 — Zengi, Nur al-Din, and the Second Crusade in The Crusades, 1095–1291.
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