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1202 BCE
Fourth Crusade (attack on Constantinople)
A Western European armed expedition called by Pope Innocent III, originally intended to reconquer Muslim-controlled Jerusalem by means of an invasion through Egypt. Instead, a sequence of events culminated in the Crusaders sacking the city of Constantinople, the capital of the Christian-controlled Byzantine Empire. -
1095 BCE
Emperor Alexios I asks Urban II for military help in Middle East
Roman popes and Byzantine emperors were longtime rivals the pope agreed. The pope ordered to free the Holy Land. -
533 BCE
General Belisarius Military Campaigns
General Belisarius was instrumental to Emperor Justinian's ambitious project of reconquering much of the Mediterranean territory of the former Western Roman Empire, which had been lost less than a century previously. -
Period: 300 BCE to 1500
The Byzantines
