Toghtekin

Pons, Count of Tripoli, accepting the surrender of the city of Tyre from atabeg Toghtekin, on July 7, 1024, in light of the Venetian Crusade. Alexandre-François Caminade

Zahir al-Din Toghtekin or Tughtekin (Modern Turkish: Tuğtekin; Arabicised epithet: ظاهر الدين طغتكين Zahir ad-Din Tughtikin; died February 12, 1128), also spelled Tughtegin, was a Turkoman military leader, who was emir of Damascus from 1104 to 1128. He was the founder of the Burid dynasty of Damascus.


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