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Saladin takes Jerusalem (1187)
2 Oct 1187 — Jerusalem surrenders to Saladin on terms. Ransomed inhabitants walk free, and he famously restrains his troops. The contrast with 1099 helps make his legend in both civilizations and shames Europe into a Third Crusade.
When 2 Oct 1187 Type Turning point Chapter Saladin and the fall of Jerusalem (chapter 6 of Crusades)Atlas The Crusades, 1095–1291
TURNING POINT · 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.
proxy: 1188–1191 reference for late1187 · reconstruction: 1028–1325 · reconstruction: 1040–1235 · reconstruction: 1066–1187 · reconstruction: 1099–1235 · reconstruction: 1147–1209 · reconstruction: 1169–1187 · reconstruction: 1169–1209 · reconstruction: 1177–1187 · reconstruction: 1187 · reconstruction: late1187 · vector: 1018–1205 · vector: 1040–1191 · vector: 1056–1191 · vector: 1072–1235 · vector: 1072–1249 · vector: 1072–1325 · vector: 1085–1187 · vector: 1094–1235 · vector: 1099–1226 · vector: 1111–1187 · vector: 1139–1187 · vector: 1139–1201 · vector: 1139–1226 · vector: 1147–1187 · vector: 1147–1201 · vector: 1152–1187 · vector: 1152–1201 · vector: 1152–1205 · vector: 1169–1187 · vector: 1169–1191 · vector: 1169–1205 · vector: 1169–1209 · vector: 1177–1187 · vector: 1177–1191 · vector: 1177–1201 · vector: 1177–1259 · vector: 1187
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