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Imad ad-Din Atabeg Zengi (also Zangi, Zengui, Zenki or Zanki, in Turkish İmadeddin Zengi, in Arabic: عماد الدین زنكي) (h.1085-14 September 1146) was the son of Aq Sunqur al- Hajib, governor of Aleppo under Malik Shah I. His father was beheaded for treason in 1094 and Zengi was raised by Kerbogha, the governor of Mosul.
Zengi was appointed Atabeg of Mosul in 1127 and Aleppo in 1128, uniting the two cities under his command and unifying a large part of Syria. The young Seljuk Sultan Mahmud II - whom Zengi had supported against his rival, the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mustarshid - invested him as governor of both.
In 1144 he took Edessa with thirty thousand soldiers, destroying it completely and burning the citadel with the Christians entrenched in it, in what could be considered the first successful campaign of the Turks against the Crusader States and that supposed the disappearance of the most Eastern among them.
In 1146 a slave committed a fault in his presence and Zengi told him that the next day he would kill him; with nothing to lose, the slave killed him while he slept.
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