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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