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| | Battle of Ager Sanguinis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Battle of Ager Sanguinis, also known as the Battle of the Field of Blood, the Battle of Sarmada, or the Battle of Balat, took place between the Crusader Principality of Antioch and the Ortoqid ruler of Aleppo in 1119. |
 | | Roger camped in the pass of Sarmada, while Ilghazi besieged the fort of al-Atharib. |
 | | At first they were incredulous at being harangued by a scholar but at the end of his passionate evocation of the duties and merits of the jihad warrior, according to Kamal ad-Din, the contemporary historian of Aleppo, these hardened professionals wept with emotion and rode into battle. |
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