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Year 1148 (MCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Africa

  • Taking advantage of internal strife and of a famine episod, George of Antioch takes Mahdia (June 22), Susa (July 1) and Sfax (July 12) in Tunisia in the name of Roger II of Sicily.
  • The Anglo-Flemish crusader fleet takes Oran.
  • Following the uprising of other cities of the region (Meknes, Sijilmasa) under al-Massati, the population of Ceuta rebels against the Almohads.

    • Asia

  • Saif-ud-din of Ghor defeats Bahram Shah at the Battle of Ghazni.
  • Siege of Damascus in the Second Crusade:
  • June – The Second Crusade reaches Jerusalem. They meet at the Council of Acre and decide to attack Damascus.
  • July 29 – The Siege of Damascus ends in failure for the Crusaders.
  • Anna Komnene writes the Alexiad, a biography of her father, Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.

    • Europe

  • King Afonso I of Portugal takes Abrantes from the Moors.
  • December 30 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona conquers Tortosa from the Moors.

    • Births

  • Qiu Chuji, Chinese Taoist (d. 1227)

    • Deaths

  • January 6
  • Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke (b. 1100)
  • William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey
  • April – Amadeus III, Count of Savoy (b. 1095)
  • August 21 – William II, Count of Nevers (b. c. 1089)
  • September 17 – Conan III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1070)
  • November 2 – Saint Malachy (b. 1094)
  • date unknown – Alphonse I, Count of Toulouse (b. 1103)

    • References

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