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زلزلة الجزيرة المخربة سنة 508

زلزلة الجزيرة المخربة سنة 508

c. 1114 CE · 508 AH

al-Ruha (Edessa) → Harran

In 508 an earthquake threw down thirteen towers of Edessa's wall and part of Harran's wall, swallowed ground at Samosata, and toppled some hundred houses at Balis with half its citadel 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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موجز

في سنة ثمان وخمسمائة حدثت زلزلة بالجزيرة فوقع من سور الرها ثلاثة عشر برجاً وبعض سور حران 1.

الخسائر

خُسف بسميساط، وتساقط في بالس نحو مائة دار وقُلب نصف القلعة 1.

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al-Ruha (Edessa)· Harran

People and things also explored

The Jazira· The Conquest of Harran· The Conquest of Edessa (al-Ruha)· أخذ مسلم بن قريش حران وقتل قاضيها· al-Ruha (Edessa)· Harran

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali, p. 501
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The Jazira

The Euphratean Jazira, the land between the Euphrates and the Tigris; conquered by Iyad ibn Ghanm after Abu Ubayda's death — 'the whole Jazira is Iyad ibn Ghanm's conquest' in Maymun ibn Mihran's words — marching for it mid-Sha'ban year 18 in five thousand; its cities include al-Ruha, Harran, al-Raqqa, Nasibin, Sinjar, Mosul and the Tigris kuwar, and with Syria it became the field of the summer and winter raids on the Byzantines.