12th-century Turkic military leader and ruler of Damascus
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Zahir al-Din Toghtekin or Tughtekin (Modern Turkish: Tuğtekin; Arabicised epithet: ظاهر الدين طغتكينZahir ad-Din Tughtikin; died February 12, 1128), also spelled Tughtegin, was a Turkoman military leader, who was emir of Damascus from 1104 to 1128. He was the founder of the Burid dynasty of Damascus.
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...
regent) Toghtekin emerged as the ruler, but faced strong opposition. Baldwin promised to support Duqaq's young brother Irtash against Toghtekin. His intervention...
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...
his nephew Roger of Salerno. In May 1113, Mawdud invaded Galilee with Toghtekin, atabeg of Damascus. On 28 June this force surprised Baldwin, chasing...
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...
two brothers. Duqaq then imprisoned Irtash for nine years in Baalbek. Toghtekin, atabeg of Damascus, elevated the twelve-year-old Irtash to emir after...
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...
his mentor (atabeg), Toghtekin, took control of Damascus and the Burid line of the Seljuq dynasty. Under Duqaq and Toghtekin, Damascus experienced stability...
Jerusalem, resulting in the slaughter of the Armenian participants. In 1113 Toghtekin of Damascus, tired of the ravages by the Christian forces against his...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
troops to the Danube frontier at Paristrion. Summer – Seljuk forces under Toghtekin make extensive raids into Galilee. King Baldwin II, in reprisal, crosses...
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...
May–June. Mawdud and Toghtekin, the atabeg of Damascus, invade Galilee. June 28. Battle of al-Sannabra: Mawdud and Toghtekin defeat Baldwin I. July–August...
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...
the Crusaders lost it definitively to the Seljuks, during the reign of Toghtekin, atabeg of Damascus. In 1157 an earthquake shattered the city. For the...
the Muhriz emir to offer control of the fortress to the Seljuk atabeg Toghtekin and the ruler of Jableh, Ibn al-Sulayha or Fakhr al-Mulk ibn Ammar, or...
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...
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