County of Tripoli

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Was a Crusader state centered in Tripoli (modern-day Lebanon). After a period of Mongol vassalage (and later vassalage ot the Ilkhanate, one of the successor states of the Mongol Empire), it was finally conquered by Egyptian Mamluks.

Establishment

July 1109: When the Frankish Crusaders - mostly southern French forces - captured Tripoli in 1109, Bertrand of Toulouse became the first Count of Tripoli as a vassal of King Baldwin I of Jerusalem.

July 1109: Rafaniya was conquered by the Seljukids.

Chronology

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1. Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the Medieval period. The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291.

1.1.Siege of Tripoli

Tripoli was captured by the Crusaders, becoming the capital of the County of Tripoli.

2. Mongol invasions and conquests

Were a series of military campaigny by the Mongols that created the largest contiguous Empire in history, the Mongol Empire, which controlled most of Eurasia.

January 1259: When Hulagu headed further west, the Armenians from Cilicia, the Seljuks from Rum and the Christian realms of Antioch and Tripoli submitted to Mongol authority, joining them in their assault against the Muslims.

3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

March 1126: The united crusader troops from Jerusalem, Tripoli and Antioch laid siege to Rafaniya on 13 March 1126. Rafaniya fell to the crusaders on 31 March.

July 1137: Battle of Ba'rin.

January 1138: In 1137, Raymond II, the reigning count of Tripoli, lost control of Montferrand.

January 1171: In the 1170s, Margat was controlled by Reynald II Mazoir of Antioch as a vassal of the count of Tripoli.

January 1175: In 1174, Sharaf al-Din Qaraqush, a commander under al-Muzaffar Umar, conquered Tripoli from the Normans.

July 1187: Saladin received the surrender of Sarepta, Sidon, Beirut, and Jableh.

January 1188: On 1 January 1188, Saladin agreed to withdraw from Tripoli.