A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled ...

Historians have chosen the year of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, 1453, as a reference point to mark the end of ...

Documentary taking a look at the Fourth Crusade, one of the most widely-discussed episodes in Crusades history. In 1204, an army of Venetians and Frankish knights captured and sacked Constantinople, ...

Constantinople, the citadel of Byzantine cultural ... feudal, theocratic empire of little value. The Crusade of 1204—after which Constantinople never really recovered—is a good starting ...

The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453 ... but the sack and destruction by the members of the Fourth Crusade led by the Venetians in 1204. The city was burned, the inhabitants killed or exiled ...

Credit: David Aubert, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain The Fourth Crusade against Constantinople in 1204 is seen as one of the most crucial episodes in Byzantine history, that led to the reduction of ...

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One of the most significant blows came during the Fourth Crusade in 1204, when Crusaders from Western Europe sacked Constantinople, severely weakening the empire and leading to its eventual ...

Jerusalem itself had been under Muslim control for more than four centuries at the time of the First Crusade, having been seized from the Byzantine Empire. Both Arabs and ... The participants of the ...