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1110

Sidon falls to the Crusaders

May 13, 1110

With a Norwegian fleet under King Sigurd the Jerusalem-Farer blockading the harbor, Baldwin I took the ancient Phoenician port. Sigurd would sail home a celebrity, the first European monarch to visit the Holy Sepulchre, trailing legends about jousting through Byzantine streets. Sidon's capture completed the Latin kingdom's control of the central Levantine coast, linking Acre to Beirut along a continuous strip of fortified ports.

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Before and after in Middle East

Before: July 12, 1109: Crusaders capture Tripoli
After: 1111: Death of al-Ghazali

Before and after in War

Before: July 12, 1109: Crusaders capture Tripoli
After: 1114: Alfonso I of Aragon campaigns on the Ebro

Era

High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Siege of Sidon