A massive earthquake known as the "Marash Earthquake" strikes modern day Turkey and Syria, in the early morning hours of November 29, 1114, killing thousands of people and destroying many towns and cities. The effects of the earthquake in the city of Marash was so devastating that one account described it as a "tomb for its own people". The city is now known as Kahramanmaraş.
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