…Batnae.
Emperor Anastasius I, after accepting a peace agreement with the Persian Empire based on status quo, upgrades the fortifications at Batnae, …
…Suruç (Sarorgia) from the Muslims, and defeated a conspiracy by some of his Armenian subjects in 1098.
At the end of 1099, he had visited Jerusalem along with Bohemond I of Antioch, but he returns to Edessa in January, 1100.
Zengi captures Saruj and …
"Remember that the people you are following didn’t know the end of their own story. So they were going forward day by day, pushed and jostled by circumstances, doing the best they could, but walking in the dark, essentially."
—Hilary Mantel, AP interview (2009)
