Siege of Constantinople

When

8 Apr 1204 – 13 Apr 1204

Kind

Siege

Coordinates

41.04° N, 28.95° E

Description

1204 siege

1204 conquest during the Fourth Crusade

The sack of Constantinople occurred in April 1204 and marked the culmination of the Fourth Crusade. Crusaders sacked and destroyed most of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. After the capture of the city, the Latin Empire was established and Baldwin IX of Flanders crowned emperor in Hagia Sophia.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Sack of Constantinople: Crusaders enter Constantinople by storm and start pillaging the city as part of the Fourth Crusade”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Konstantinopolis Kuşatması gerçekleşti”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Vierter Kreuzzug – Unter Führung des Dogen Dandolo erobert ein venezianisch-fränkisches Kreuzfahrerheer Konstantinopel”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “sac de Constantinople par la quatrième croisade”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “12 апреля — штурм, взятие и разграбление Константинополя крестоносцами”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “君士坦丁堡之圍 (1204年)，第四次十字军东征攻占了君士坦丁堡，并劫城三天，成立拉丁帝國，鮑德溫一世爲開國君主。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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