In the 1114 CE Marash Earthquake, three authors described severe damage at Balis. The earliest, Ibn al-Jawzi, reported that about one hundred houses collapsed in Balis and half the citadel was "thrown down.” A little later, Ibn al-Athir wrote that the earthquake devastated Edessa, Ḥarrān, Sumaysāṭ, and Bālis, killing many beneath the rubble. Finally, the Syriac chronicler Bar Hebraeus echoed Ibn al-Jawzi’s account, stating that one hundred houses and half of the citadel of Balis collapsed.