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On Zengi's death, his territories were divided, with Mosul and his lands in Iraq going to his eldest son Saif ad-Din Ghazi I, and Aleppo and Edessa falling to his second son, Nur ad-Din Mahmud.

Nur ad-Din proved to be as competent as his father.

In 1149 he defeated Prince Raymond of Antioch at the battle of Inab, and the next year conquered the remnants of the County of Edessa west of the Euphrates River.

In 1154 he capped off these successes by his capture of Damascus from the Burid Emirs who ruled it.