High Middle Ages · Middle East · War
1268
Baibars takes Antioch
May 18, 1268
The great Crusader capital, founded by Bohemond of Taranto in 1098, fell to Mamluk assault. The city was sacked and burned; its inhabitants killed or enslaved in numbers that shocked even contemporaries. Antioch, ancient and Christian, ceased to exist as a Latin state. Baibars wrote a gloating letter to Bohemond VI, who had been absent during the siege, detailing the horrors his city had suffered.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.