Depth
At a glance
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Overview
Damascus fell to the commander Atsiz in 468 AH / 1075 CE, and the call to the Abbasid caliph was proclaimed there. 2
al-Sallabi places this in the context of the expansion of the Seljuk state under Sultan Malikshah, from Afghanistan in the east to Asia Minor in the west and the lands of Syria in the south. 2
Connections
- Occurred at
- Damascus
- Had participant
- أتسز بن أوق الخوارزمي· السلطان ملكشاه جلال الدولة بن ألب أرسلان
People and things also explored
the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· The sakk and the hawala· استيلاء العادل على دمشق· هزيمة أتسز أمام مصر· حملة أتسز بن أوق على الشام· موقعة مرج راهط
Sources
- al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001), p. 33
- al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001), p.33
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “سقوط دمشق بيد أتسز”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/conquest-damascus-atsiz-468/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.