It reached the north soon after the Ottoman Turks sacked Constantinople and became a propagandist tool in stirring papalistic emotions to raise funds to lead a counterattack.

Venice became a fully imperial power following the Venetian-financed Fourth Crusade, which in 1203 captured and in 1204 sacked Constantinople and established the Latin Empire.

In 1204, the Fourth Crusade invaded, seized and sacked Constantinople, and established the Latin Empire.

In 1204, after Western crusaders sacked Constantinople, Venice won nominal control over Albania and the Epirus region of northern Greece and took possession of Durrës.

So successful was this process that in 1204, rather than reclaiming Jerusalem, members of the Fourth Crusade ended up sacking Constantinople, capital of the Orthodox Byzantine empire.

There was also the threat of attack by the Grand Duchy of Moscow and by the Ottoman Empire, which sacked Constantinople in 1453.

This was part of the loot of the Fourth Crusade, which sacked Constantinople and was a potent source of primary relics.

The third and final volume of a spirited narrative history of the Eastern Roman Empire, a politico-religious institution now as little known in the West as when crusaders sacked Constantinople in 1204.

The culmination of the empire's military disintegration under the Angeloi was reached on 13 April 1204, when the armies of the Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople.

The Orthodox contend that both men's remains were taken when crusaders sacked Constantinople in 1204, one of the major early events in the two rites' division.