High Middle Ages · Middle East · War
1289
Qalawun captures Tripoli
1289
The Mamluk sultan stormed the crusader-held county of Tripoli, killing or enslaving the inhabitants. The last major Frankish possessions in Outremer were reduced to Acre and a few coastal castles. The thin strip of Christian Syria was about to vanish entirely. Genoese ships evacuated what refugees they could, but most of the population was trapped within the walls when the final assault came.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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