What the records say
- When
- 21 Jul 1099
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 10,000
- Coordinates
- 31.77° N, 35.22° E
- Description
- slaughter of Muslims and Palestinian Jews by Christian Crusaders
Placed at the town its title names, Jerusalem.
Massacre of Jerusalem (1099)
Slaughter of Muslims and Jews by Christian Crusaders
The Massacre of Jerusalem was a mass slaughter of thousands of Muslims and Jews by the sieging Crusaders in mid-July 1099, following the Siege of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. Contemporaneous and eyewitness sources suggest the massacre was widespread, occurring alongside the conversion of Muslim sites on the Temple Mount, including the al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock, into Christian holy places.
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