"sack" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It reached the north soon after the Ottoman Turks sacked Constantinople and became a propagandist tool in stirring papalistic emotions to raise funds to lead a counterattack.
- Venice became a fully imperial power following the Venetian-financed Fourth Crusade, which in 1203 captured and in 1204 sacked Constantinople and established the Latin Empire.
- In 1204, the Fourth Crusade invaded, seized and sacked Constantinople, and established the Latin Empire.
- In 1204, after Western crusaders sacked Constantinople, Venice won nominal control over Albania and the Epirus region of northern Greece and took possession of Durrës.
- So successful was this process that in 1204, rather than reclaiming Jerusalem, members of the Fourth Crusade ended up sacking Constantinople, capital of the Orthodox Byzantine empire.
- There was also the threat of attack by the Grand Duchy of Moscow and by the Ottoman Empire, which sacked Constantinople in 1453.
- This was part of the loot of the Fourth Crusade, which sacked Constantinople and was a potent source of primary relics.
- The third and final volume of a spirited narrative history of the Eastern Roman Empire, a politico-religious institution now as little known in the West as when crusaders sacked Constantinople in 1204.
- The culmination of the empire's military disintegration under the Angeloi was reached on 13 April 1204, when the armies of the Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople.
- The Orthodox contend that both men's remains were taken when crusaders sacked Constantinople in 1204, one of the major early events in the two rites' division.
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