Nur ad-Din
1118 CE–1174 CE · Aleppo
Nur ad-Din Mahmud Zangi (1118-1174) was a ruler of the Zengid dynasty who inherited Aleppo on his father's death in 1146 and later added Damascus, unifying much of Muslim Syria. He organized sustained resistance to the Crusader states and promoted Sunni religious institutions across his domains. It was Nur ad-Din who dispatched the expeditions to Egypt that brought his commander Saladin to power there. He died in 1174, and Saladin subsequently absorbed much of the Zengid inheritance into his own realm.
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- Emperor Gaozong of Song· 1107 CE–1187 CE
- Manuel I Komnenos· 1118 CE–1180 CE
- Andrey Bogolyubsky· 1111 CE–1174 CE
- Kilij Arslan II· 1113 CE–1192 CE
- Frederick I Barbarossa· 1122 CE–1190 CE
- al-Adid· 1151 CE–1171 CE
- Lord Four Wind 'Fire Serpent'· 1092 CE–
- Saladin· 1137 CE–1193 CE
- Jayavarman VII· 1122 CE–1218 CE
- Ahmad Sanjar· 1086 CE–1157 CE
- Ghiyath ad-Din Muhammad· 1140 CE–1203 CE
- Minamoto no Yoritomo· 1147 CE–1199 CE
- Muhammad of Ghor· 1144 CE–1206 CE
- Qutb ud-Din Aibak· –1210 CE
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