Crusades · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Sack of Constantinople (1204)
On the Crusades map as “The sack of Constantinople”
12–13 Apr 1204 — a crusade against Islam storms and pillages the greatest Christian city on earth. Relics and the bronze horses of San Marco are carried to Venice; Byzantium is fatally maimed. A site of memory.
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- Fourth Crusade (chapter 8 of Crusades)
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- The Crusades, 1095–1291
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