Venetian fleet helps capture Tyre

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The great Phoenician port of Tyre, the last major coastal city on the Levantine shore to resist the Franks, finally surrendered after a joint siege by Baldwin II's army and a Venetian fleet of over a hundred war galleys. Venice extracted a full third of the city and sweeping trading privileges in exchange - concessions that would underpin its Levantine commercial empire for generations.