High Middle Ages · Middle East · War

1262

Venetian and Genoese navies clash at Acre

1262

The two Italian maritime republics, locked in a commercial war for control of eastern Mediterranean trade, fought a bloody naval battle in the harbor of Acre itself. Crusader Acre was caught between Christian trading rivals even as Mamluk armies massed on its borders, a grim metaphor for Latin Outremer's final years.

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Before: 1261: Coptic bishop reopens monasteries
After: 1265: Nasir al-Din Tusi's Zij-i Ilkhani published

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