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    following is a list of sieges of Constantinople, a historic city located in an area which is today part of Istanbul, Turkey. Constantinople was built on the...
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    1203, the main Crusader army reached Constantinople, while other contingents (perhaps a majority of all crusaders) continued to Acre. In August 1203,...
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    Fourth Crusade was, despite papal excommunication, diverted in 1203 against Constantinople, ostensibly promoting the claims of Alexios IV Angelos brother-in-law...
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    Year 1203 (MCCIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. It was also the first year to...
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    of Malta attacked an Ottoman convoy of sailing ships on its way from Constantinople to Alexandria. They landed at Candia with the loot, which included the...
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    1201, he distinguished himself at the siege of Constantinople of 1203 and elsewhere. During the July 1203 siege, Henry was one of eight division generals...
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    Zadar, the Fourth Crusade continued its campaign, which led to the siege of Constantinople. Shortly after his election as pope in 1198, Pope Innocent III...
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    Mediterranean and greatly eased their maritime communications between Constantinople and Cairo and the Levantine ports. Later, in 1669, from this base Ottoman...
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    The Latin Empire, also referred to as the Latin Empire of Constantinople, was a feudal Crusader state founded by the leaders of the Fourth Crusade on lands...
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    The Reconquest of Constantinople was the recapture of the city of Constantinople in 1261 by the forces of the Empire of Nicaea, leading to the re-establishment...
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    31: 111–117 Madden, T.F. (1992) "The Fires of the Fourth Crusade in Constantinople, 1203- 1204: A Damage Assessment", Byzantinische Zeitschrift, lxxxiv–v...
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  • prominent in the initial defence of Constantinople against the Fourth Crusade, in 1202–1203. After the fall of Constantinople in 1204 Theodore seems to have...
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    and the inhabitants of Constantinople was growing. In December 1203, violence exploded between the citizens of Constantinople and the Crusaders. Enraged...
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    Venetian fleet entered the waters of Constantinople on 24 June 1203, they encountered little resistance. In the summer of 1203 Alexios III fled, and Alexios...
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    Raymond (1953). La Géographie Ecclésiastique de l'Empire Byzantin. 1. Part: Le Siège de Constantinople et le Patriarcat Oecuménique. 3rd Vol. : Les Églises...
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  • Wars Siege of Zadar (1202) – Part of the Fourth Crusade Siege of Constantinople (1203) – Part of the Fourth Crusade Siege of Château Gaillard (1203–1204)...
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    Venetian fleet entered the waters of Constantinople on 24 June 1203, they encountered little resistance. On 5 July 1203, the Crusader army crossed the Bosporus...
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    Galata, located at the north of the Golden Horn in Constantinople, to which Bayezid had laid siege in 1395.[citation needed] In 1394, Pope Boniface IX...
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    Alexios III Angelos.[citation needed] During the first siege of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1203 he was given command of the best body of troops available...
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    Galata (category Quarters and suburbs of Constantinople)
    Raymond (1953). La Géographie Ecclésiastique de l'Empire Byzantin. 1. Part: Le Siège de Constantinople et le Patriarcat Oecuménique. 3rd Vol. : Les Églises...
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    The foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD marks the conventional start of the Eastern Roman Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Only...
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    conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans. Trebizond lasted until 1461, when the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II conquered it after a month-long siege and took...
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    1202, and he accompanied it to the Siege of Zara (1202), thence to Corfu (1203) and finally the Sack of Constantinople (1204). He and the other clergy functioned...
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  • which had been diverted from the Holy Land, took part in the Siege of Constantinople in 1203 and the sacking of the same city a year later. In 1204 he led...
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    samurai (b. 1135) Roger de Beaumont, English chancellor and bishop William of the White Hands, French cardinal (b. 1135) 1203 January – Sayyida Zumurrud...
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    supplies they needed to reach Egypt. The crusaders arrived at Constantinople in the summer of 1203 and quickly attacked, starting a major fire that damaged...
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    use of hastily improvised fireships is mentioned during the 1203 siege of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade, no report confirms the use of the actual...
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    Morea and heir to the Byzantine throne. In 1456, after the Fall of Constantinople (1453) to the Ottoman Empire, Turahanoğlu Ömer Bey conquered the remnants...
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  • On 8 November 1203, after the truce with the Ayyubids had been broken, Martin and Conrad of Schwarzenberg were sent to Constantinople to request assistance...
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    buildings. 1200 – Theotokos Kyriotissa built (approximate date). 1203Siege of Constantinople (1203) by the Fourth Crusade, in which Alexius IV was able to usurp...
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