Fall of Tyre

July 7, 1124

With a Venetian fleet blockading the seaward side, the great Phoenician port fell to the Crusaders after a six-month siege. Venice was rewarded with a third of the city and a commercial quarter that would underwrite her Levantine empire for three centuries. The Venetians also received a church, a marketplace, and exemption from tolls throughout the kingdom, privileges that made them the most powerful Italian community in the Latin East.