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Thus Spoke Zarathustra • F Nietzsche““Antioch was the last of the great cities of Arab Asia to have fallen under the domination of the Seljuk Turks: in 1084 it was still a dependency of Constantinople. Thirteen years later, when the Frankish knights laid siege to the town, Yaghi-SiyÁn was naturally convinced that this was part of an attempt””
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes • Amin Maalouf