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Topic: Constantinople, Sack of
Location: Pharsalus Greece

Constantinople, Sack of

Years: 1204 - 1204

The Sack of Constantinople or Siege of Constantinople (also called the Fourth Crusade) occurs in 1204; it destroys parts of the capital of the Byzantine Empire as the city is captured by Western European and Venetian Crusaders.

After the capture, the Latin Empire is founded and Baldwin of Flanders is crowned Emperor Baldwin I of Constantinople in the Hagia Sophia.

"Remember that the people you are following didn’t know the end of their own story. So they were going forward day by day, pushed and jostled by circumstances, doing the best they could, but walking in the dark, essentially."

—Hilary Mantel, AP interview (2009)