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Map of the Crusades in 1144
Edessa falls to Zengi
The Crusades in 1144: Edessa falls to Zengi. The map shows who held what: Latin Christendom, The Islamic powers — Seljuk, Zengid, Ayyubid, Mamluk, Byzantium (and Latin Constantinople 1204–61).
1144 · THE CRUSADES, 1095–1291 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — historical political boundaries · Simon Barton — Crusading in Iberia, c. 1060–1212 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art — The Crusades (1095–1291) · Natural Earth — physical reference geography · OpenStax — The Crusading Movement
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Dated polygons selected; local transfers and shared frontier edges derived with documented historical event corrections. Simon Barton, The Cambridge History of the Crusades. Published summary consulted for dated conquests; no map copied Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, 2014. Facts consulted; no prose or image copied Natural Earth. Public domain OpenStax, World History Volume 1. CC BY 4.0 The loss of Edessa city in 1144 uses the first subsequent source remainder, retaining the surviving western county territory.
At some ports, source coastlines have offsets of several kilometers at their resolution. The original polygons are preserved, and the review record gives explicit coastal anchor tolerances.
reconstruction: 1028–1325 · reconstruction: 1040–1235 · reconstruction: 1066–1187 · reconstruction: 1099–1168 · reconstruction: 1099–1235 · reconstruction: 1111–1151 · reconstruction: 1139–1146 · reconstruction: 1139–1151 · reconstruction: 1144 · reconstruction: 1147–1151 reference for post-December1144 · reconstruction: 990–1146 · reconstruction: December1144 · vector: 1010–1151 · vector: 1018–1176 · vector: 1018–1205 · vector: 1040–1146 · vector: 1040–1191 · vector: 1056–1146 · vector: 1056–1191 · vector: 1066–1146 · vector: 1066–1168 · vector: 1072–1235 · vector: 1072–1249 · vector: 1072–1325 · vector: 1085–1146 · vector: 1085–1151 · vector: 1085–1187 · vector: 1094–1146 · vector: 1094–1168 · vector: 1094–1235 · vector: 1099–1146 · vector: 1099–1151 · vector: 1099–1226 · vector: 1111–1146 · vector: 1111–1176 · vector: 1111–1187 · vector: 1126–1151 · vector: 1126–1168 · vector: 1139–1146 · vector: 1139–1151 · vector: 1139–1168 · vector: 1139–1176 · vector: 1139–1187 · vector: 1139–1201 · vector: 1139–1226 · vector: 1144
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