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Turbessel
Turbessel, today Tell Bashir near the Syrian–Turkish border, was a fortress west of the Euphrates and the second centre of the crusader County of Edessa. Joscelin of Courtenay held it before becoming count, and after Zengi took Edessa in 1144 Joscelin II ruled the remaining western part of the county from there. His wife Beatrice handed it to the Byzantines in 1150, and it fell to Nur al-Din soon after.
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