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Middle East. By topic. Religion. Births. Deaths. References. 1202. The Crusaders conquering the city of Zadar (or Zara ), by Andrea Vicentino. Year 1202 ( MCCII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar . Events. By place. Fourth Crusade.
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- East-West Suspicion
- Venice & The Fourth Crusade
- Objective Constantinople
- The Sack of Constantinople
- Aftermath
- The Fourth Crusade in The Holy Land
The Byzantines saw themselves as the defenders of Christendom, the beacon which shone out across the Mediterranean and central Asia, hosts to the holiest city outside Jerusalem, and the rock which stood against the tide of Islam sweeping in from the east. By the western half of the old Roman Empire, though, the Byzantines were regarded as decadent,...
The Third Crusade (1187-1192 CE), although achieving some notable military successes, had failed completely in its original objective of recapturing Jerusalem from the Muslim Sultan of Egypt and Syria, Saladin(r. 1174-1193 CE). The celebrated Sultan was now dead, but the Holy City remained in Muslim hands. Yet another crusade was required. The Four...
Historians continue to debate the exact reason why the Crusaders then turned on Constantinople instead of Jerusalem, but one crucial ingredient in the troublesome mix of mutual suspicions between the western powers and Byzantium was the Republic of Venice and one man, in particular, the Doge Enrico Dandolo (r. 1192-1205 CE). Intent on winning Venet...
The Crusader army arrived outside Constantinople on 24 June 1203 CE. The force consisted of around 4,500 knights and their squires, up to 14,000 infantry, and 20,000-30,000 Venetians. The first target was the Byzantine garrison at nearby Galata on the other shore of the Golden Horn. Thus, the massive chain which blocked the harbour of the Golden Ho...
After the looting finally ended, the PartitioRomaniae treaty, already decided on beforehand, carved up the Byzantine Empire amongst Venice and its allies. The Venetians took three-eighths of Constantinople, the Ionian islands, Crete, Euboea, Andros, Naxos, and a few strategic points along the coast of the Sea of Marmara. Thus, Venetian control of M...
Perhaps understandably, the shocking fall of Constantinople has grabbed almost all the attention of the Fourth Crusade, but there was a small contingent of western Crusaders, led by Renard II of Dampierre, which did fulfil the original purpose of the expedition and reach the Middle East, better late than never, in April 1203 CE. The 300 knights wer...
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1202 (MCCII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1202nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 202nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 2nd year of the 13th century, and the 3rd year of the 1200s decade.
1202 AD Danish Empire - Valdemar II succeeded to the Danish throne upon the death of his brother. Valdemar expanded the Danish Empire to include Northern Germany. 1204 AD Crusaders Capture Constantinople - Constantinople was captured for the first time in 1204. Soldiers of the Fourth Crusade seized the city on April 12 after a six-month siege.
Order of the Brothers of the Sword, organization of crusading knights that began the successful conquest and Christianization of Livonia (most of modern Latvia and Estonia) between 1202 and 1237. After German merchants from Lübeck and Bremen acquired commercial interests in the lands around the mouth of the Dvina River (mid-12th century ...
