28 June 1098
Battle of Orontes
Defeated at Orantes by the Crusades, the siege of Antioch finally ends
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Orontes in Turkey. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Defeated at Orantes by the Crusades, the siege of Antioch finally ends
Leads a defeated Moslem army which suffers heavy casualties
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