Battle of Ager Sanguinis

When

5 Jul 1119

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

36.18° N, 36.72° E

Description

near Sarmada in Syria on June 28, 1119

Battle in the Middle East in 1119

Battle of the Field of Blood, also known in Latin as Battle of Ager Sanguinis, and in Arabic as Battle of al-Balat. Was a battle where Roger of Salerno's Crusader army of the Principality of Antioch was annihilated by the army of Ilghazi of Mardin, the Artuqid ruler of Aleppo on 28 June 1119.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Ager Sanguinis: The Crusader army of the Principality of Antioch under Roger of Salerno is ambushed and annihilated near Sarmada by the combined…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Ein muslimisches Heer unter Ilghazi, dem Emir von Aleppo aus der Dynastie der Ortoqiden und Ibn al-Chaschschab schlagen das Heer der Kreuzfahrer aus dem…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “les chevaliers d’Antioche sont écrasés par les troupes d’Il-Ghazi à la bataille du Champ du Sang (ager sanguinis)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “битва на Кровавом Поле, мусульманская армия Иль-Гази разгромила войско Рожера Салернского, регента Антиохии”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “معركة ساحة الدم: إلغازي حاكم حلب يهزم جيشا صليبيا قادما من إمارة أنطاكية”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page