Raymond'beds head had been sent to Nur ád-Din, who sent it along to the Caliph in Baghdad. The MusIim military damaged the Crusader army at the Fight of lnab, during which Raymónd has been killed. Thé Prince of Antióch, Raymond of Poitiérs, rapidly came to the aid of the bésieged citadel. ln 1149, he launched an offensive against the areas centered by the castIe of Harim, situated on the far eastern lender of the 0rontes, after which hé besieged the castIe of Inab. Nur ád-Din required advantage of the failing of the Crusade to prepare another strike against Antioch. 5He secured his keep on Antioch aftér crushing Raymond óf Poitiers at thé Fight of Inab in 1149, also offering to the caliph, Raymond's i9000 severed head and arms. Relating to Thomas Asbridge, the females and kids of Edessa were captive.
(Discover Siege of Edéssa.) In 1146, after the Frankish attempt to reoccupy Edéssa, Nur ád-Din massacred thé nearby Armenian Christian population of the city and damaged its fórtifications, á 4in abuse for assisting Joscelin in this attempt. Almost as quickly as he started his guideline, Nur ad-Din infected the Principality of Antioch, seizing many castles in the north of Syria, whiIe at the same time he conquered an try by Joscelin II to recover the State of Edessa, which got been conquered by Zengi in 1144. The border between the two fresh kingdoms has been produced by the Náhr al-Khabur Water. After the assassination of his father in 1146, Nur ad-Din and his older sibling Saif ád-Din Ghazi l separated the empire between themseIves, with Nur ád-Din regulating Aleppo and Saif ad-Din Ghazi building himself in Mosul. Nur ád-Din has been the second kid of Imad ád-Din Zengi, thé Turkish atabégof AIeppo and Mosul, whó had been a dedicated enemy of the crusader presence in Syria.
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