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Massacre at Béziers (1209)
On the Crusades map as “Béziers”
22 Jul 1209 — A crusade proclaimed against Christian heretics in Languedoc sacks Béziers. Thousands die, believers and Cathars alike. A chronicler reports the command: “Kill them all — God will know his own.” Crusade has turned inward. A site of memory.
When 22 Jul 1209 Type Site of memory Chapter Crusades beyond the Holy Land (chapter 9 of Crusades)Atlas The Crusades, 1095–1291 SITE OF MEMORY · THE CRUSADES, 1095–1291 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — historical political boundaries · Simon Barton — Crusading in Iberia, c. 1060–1212 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art — The Crusades (1095–1291) · Natural Earth — physical reference geography · OpenStax — The Crusading Movement
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Dated polygons selected; local transfers and shared frontier edges derived with documented historical event corrections. Simon Barton, The Cambridge History of the Crusades. Published summary consulted for dated conquests; no map copied Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, 2014. Facts consulted; no prose or image copied Natural Earth. Public domain OpenStax, World History Volume 1. CC BY 4.0 At some ports, source coastlines have offsets of several kilometers at their resolution. The original polygons are preserved, and the review record gives explicit coastal anchor tolerances.
reconstruction: 1028–1325 · reconstruction: 1040–1235 · reconstruction: 1099–1235 · reconstruction: 1202–1219 · reconstruction: 1202–1249 · reconstruction: 1206–1215 · reconstruction: 1206–1226 · reconstruction: 1210–1215 · reconstruction: 1210–1219 · reconstruction: 1210–1226 · reconstruction: 1210–1240 · reconstruction: 1212 · vector: 1072–1235 · vector: 1072–1249 · vector: 1072–1325 · vector: 1094–1235 · vector: 1099–1226 · vector: 1139–1226 · vector: 1177–1259 · vector: 1188–1215 · vector: 1188–1219 · vector: 1188–1235 · vector: 1188–1259 · vector: 1188–1271 · vector: 1192–1235 · vector: 1192–1362 · vector: 1202–1215 · vector: 1202–1219 · vector: 1202–1235 · vector: 1202–1240 · vector: 1202–1249 · vector: 1202–1259 · vector: 1202–1284 · vector: 1206–1215 · vector: 1206–1219 · vector: 1206–1235 · vector: 1206–1240 · vector: 1206–1259 · vector: 1206–1271 · vector: 1206–1304 · vector: 1210–1215 · vector: 1210–1219 · vector: 1210–1249 · vector: 1210–1304 · vector: 1212
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