Crusades · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Siege of Zara (1202)
On the Crusades map as “The sack of Zara”
Nov 1202 — to work off the debt, the crusaders storm a Christian, Catholic city for Venice — and are excommunicated for it. The first wrong turn; the rest follow more easily. A site of memory.
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- Site of memory
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- Fourth Crusade (chapter 8 of Crusades)
- Atlas
- The Crusades, 1095–1291
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