Dukak
King saljûqide of Damas (1095 - 1104).
Wire of Tutuch, he manages to escape from the citadel of Alep whereas the slaves of its brother Ridwan tried to strangle it. He takes refuge with Damas, whose garrison proclaims it king, and dedicates from now on a hatred relentless with his brother.
The December 31st 1197, its army is pushed back by the Francs which besiege Antioche. After the catch of Antioche (June 3rd 1098), it is at the origin of a conspiracy within the Moslem army against the emir of Mosul Karbouka. These dissensions involve the dispersion of the Moslems and leaves the freehands to cross in Syria.
In 1100, Dukak, following the raids repeated of the Francs of Jerusalem on the herds and harvests of one of its vassal, a Bedouin of the Golan, attacks Godefroi de Bouillon and Tancrède, a nephew of Bohémond de Tarente, charged with spoils. The Francs manage to flee with heavy losses (May). Tancrède organizes a raid of reprisals close to Damas, devastates the orchards and plunders the villages. Dukak does not dare to intervene. He proposes in Tancrède to pay a large sum to him so that he moves away. Tancrède sends a delegation of six people summoning Dukak to convert with Christianity or to deliver Damas. Outraged, Dukak enjoint with the emissary to embrace Islam. One of them accepts, the five others have the distinct head. Godefroy joined Tancrède and the Francs devastate during ten days the area of Damas.
In October of the same year, Dukak gathers its forces and tightens a ambush with Baudouin d' Edesse, on the way for Jerusalem to take the succession of his/her brother Godefroi de Bouillon, close to Beirut, with the passage of the Nahr-el-Kalb. New the cadi of Tripoli, Fakhr el-Moulk, fearing that its victory does not give too many being able to its rival of Damas, informs Baudouin of the ambush. After a short skirmish, the troops of Damas ebb towards the Lebanese mountain, while the Francs pass the mouth of Nahr-el-Kalb quietly.
With died from Dukak in 1104, the Saljûqide principality of Damas disappears with the profit from the Turkish atabek Tugh Tegin or Toghtekin (death in 1128) which founds the dynasty of the Burides (1104 - 1154).
| Random links: | Cumin | Neotomodon | Argonauta nodosa | Shriners | Standing conference of the political parties of Latin America and the Caribbean | Triphosphate_de_guanosine |