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Battle of Aintab
Part of the Crusades
Date
August 1150
Location
Gaziantep, Turkey
Result
Crusader victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Jerusalem
Zengids
Commanders and leaders
Baldwin III of Jerusalem
Nur ad-Din Zangi
Strength
500 knights unknown number of infantry
Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown
Unknown
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t
e
Zengid–Crusader War (1127–1174)
al-Atharib
Rafaniyya
Antioch
Qinnasrin
Ba'rin
Aleppo
Shaizar
Edessa 1144
Saruj
Edessa 1146
Bosra
Damascus
Inab
Aintab
Turbessel
Lake Huleh
Butaiha
al-Buqaia
Harim
Crusader invasions of Egypt
al-Babein
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t
e
Crusades: battles in the Levant (1096–1303)
First Crusade
Xerigordos
Civetot
Nicaea
1st Dorylaeum
1st Antioch
Samosata
2nd Antioch
Ma'arra
Arqa
1st Jerusalem
1st Ascalon
Period post-First Crusade
Arsuf
Melitene
Mersivan
1st Heraclea
2nd Heraclea
1st Ramla
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
Azaz
Marj al-Saffar
al-Atharib
Rafaniyya
Antioch
Qinnasrin
Ba'rin
2nd Aleppo
2nd Shaizar
Edessa 1144
Edessa 1146
Bosra
Second Crusade
1st Constantinople
2nd Dorylaeum
Ephesus
Meander Valley
Mount Cadmus
Damascus
Period post-Second Crusade
Inab
Aintab
2nd Ascalon
Lake Huleh
Butaiha
al-Buqaia
Harim
1st Bilbeis
al-Babein
2nd Bilbeis
1st Damietta
Alexandria
Montgisard
Banias
Marj Ayyun
Jacob's Ford
Red Sea
1st Belvoir Castle
Al-Fule
Kerak
Cresson
Hattin
2nd Jerusalem
3rd Tyre
2nd Belvoir Castle
Laodicea
Sahyun
Al-Shughur
Bourzey
Safed
Third Crusade
Acre and Tyre
Philomelion
Iconium
1st Arsuf
1st Jaffa
Period post-Third Crusade
2nd Jaffa
Toron
Fourth Crusade
Zara
2nd Constantinople
3rd Constantinople
Fifth Crusade
Mount Tabor
Machghara
2nd Damietta
1st Fariskur
1st Mansurah
Sixth Crusade and aftermath
Gaza
3rd Jerusalem
Forbie
3rd Ascalon
Seventh Crusade
3rd Damietta
2nd Mansurah
2nd Fariskur
End of the Crusader states in the Levant
2nd Arsuf
Caesarea
Haifa
Safed
2nd Antioch
Eighth Crusade
Krak des Chevaliers
2nd Tripoli
Lord Edward's Crusade
Homs
Margat
3rd Tripoli
2nd Acre
Ruad
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