{"slug": "harran", "label": "Harran", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harran", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q199547", "qid": "Q199547", "description": "district and town in Şanlıurfa, Turkey and ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia", "entries": 11, "years": 11, "span": [-611, 1982], "span_label": ["612 BCE", "1982 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 8}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "nusaybin", "label": "Nusaybin", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "mosul", "label": "Mosul", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "county-of-edessa", "label": "County of Edessa", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "assyria", "label": "Assyria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "turkey", "label": "Turkey", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sultanate-of-rum", "label": "Sultanate of Rum", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "edessa", "label": "Edessa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "malatya", "label": "Malatya", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kilij-arslan-i", "label": "Kilij Arslan I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "may", "label": "May", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-armenia-antiquity", "label": "Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -611, "year_label": "612 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Ashur-uballit II attempts to keep the Assyrian state alive by establishing himself as king at Harran.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510241#Events", "title": "612 BC", "revid": 1370510241, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -608, "year_label": "609 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Medes and the Babylonians defeat the Assyrians under Ashur-uballit II and capture Harran. Ashur-uballit II, the last king of Assyria, disappears from history.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510312#Events", "title": "609 BC", "revid": 1370510312, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 242, "year_label": "242 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Shapur I makes a pre-emptive attack on Antioch to drive out the Romans. Gordian's father-in-law, Timesitheus, leads a Roman army to defeat the Sassanids at Carrhae and Nisibis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371192139#Persia", "title": "242", "revid": 1371192139, "section": "Events › By place › Persia"}}, {"year": 734, "year_label": "734 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 3", "text": "June 3 – Simeon of the Olives, Syriac bishop of Harran (b. 624/5)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340809669#Deaths", "title": "734", "revid": 1340809669, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 793, "year_label": "793 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "August 17", "text": "August 17 – Quriaqos of Tagrit is consecrated Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch at Harran.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364906953#Religion", "title": "793", "revid": 1364906953, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1104, "year_label": "1104 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 7", "text": "May 7 – Battle of Harran: The Crusaders under Baldwin II are defeated by the Seljuk Turks. Baldwin and Joscelin of Courtenay are taken prisoner. Tancred (nephew of Bohemond I) becomes regent of Edessa. The defeat at Harran marks a key turning point of Crusader expansion.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365271015#Levant", "title": "1104", "revid": 1365271015, "section": "Events › By place › Levant"}}, {"year": 1105, "year_label": "1105 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Autumn – Kilij Arslan I, sultan of the Sultanate of Rum, leads a Seljuk expedition to take over Melitene (modern Turkey). He attempts to capture Edessa, but the Crusader fortress is too strongly defended by its garrison. Kilij Arslan then moves on to Harran, which surrenders to him.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365268232#Seljuk_Empire", "title": "1105", "revid": 1365268232, "section": "Events › By place › Seljuk Empire"}}, {"year": 1123, "year_label": "1123 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May", "text": "May – Baldwin II and Joscelin I are rescued by 50 Armenian soldiers (disguised as monks and merchants) at Kharput. They kill the guards, and infiltrate the castle where the prisoners are kept. Joscelin escapes to seek help. However, the castle is soon besieged by Turkish forces under Belek Ghazi – and is after some time recaptured. Baldwin and Waleran of Le Puiset are moved for greater safety to the castle of Harran.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366532227#April–June", "title": "1123", "revid": 1366532227, "section": "Events › By date › April–June"}}, {"year": 1127, "year_label": "1127 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Imad ad-Din Zengi, a Turkish military leader, becomes governor (atabeg) of Mosul. He seizes the cities of Nisibin, Sinjar and Harran in the Jazira Region (Northern Mesopotamia).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1348045996#Levant", "title": "1127", "revid": 1348045996, "section": "Events › By place › Levant"}}, {"year": 1144, "year_label": "1144 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Autumn – Imad al-Din Zengi, Seljuk governor (atabeg) of Mosul, attacks the Artuqid forces led by Kara Arslan – who has made an alliance with Joscelin II, count of Edessa. In support of the alliance Joscelin marches out of Edessa with a Crusader army down to the Euphrates River, to cut off Zengi's communications with Aleppo. Zengi is informed by Muslim observers at Harran of Joscelin's movements. He sends a detachment of Muslims to ambush the Crusaders and reaches Edessa with his main army in late November.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362160711#Levant", "title": "1144", "revid": 1362160711, "section": "Events › By place › Levant"}}, {"year": 1982, "year_label": "1982 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "February 3", "text": "February 3 – Syrian president Hafez al-Assad orders the army to purge the city of Harran of the Muslim Brotherhood.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373279023#February", "title": "1982", "revid": 1373279023, "section": "Events › February"}}]}