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Siege of Krak des Chevaliers (1271)
On the Crusades map as “The fall of Krak”
8 Apr 1271 — Baibars takes Krak by siege and a forged surrender order. The castle had seemed impregnable. Its fall shows how vulnerable the strongholds of Outremer have become.
When 8 Apr 1271 Type Turning point Chapter Fall of the crusader states (chapter 11 of Crusades)Atlas The Crusades, 1095–1291 TURNING POINT · THE CRUSADES, 1095–1291 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Reuven Amitai-Preiss — Mongols and Mamluks · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — historical political boundaries · Simon Barton — Crusading in Iberia, c. 1060–1212 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Byzantium (ca. 330–1453) · The Metropolitan Museum of Art — The Crusades (1095–1291) · Natural Earth — physical reference geography · OpenStax — The Crusading Movement
Source details Reuven Amitai-Preiss, Cambridge University Press,1995. Historical event chronology consulted; no map or prose copied 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 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Facts consulted; no prose or image 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 The source retains a Latin Empire beyond 1261. Its territory is assigned to restored Byzantine authority, while the remaining Latin principalities in Greece retain their own outlines.
For Syria after Ain Jalut, the source’s coarse 1260–1271 Mongol stage is corrected using the next local Mamluk Syrian outline.
Antioch is shown as lost after 1268, rather than retaining the source’s overlong 1260–1271 interval as an independent state.
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: 1206–1271 · reconstruction: 1236–1271 · reconstruction: 1250–1271 · reconstruction: 1250–1278 · reconstruction: 1260–1271 · reconstruction: 1260–1278 · reconstruction: 1271 · reconstruction: post1268,1271 · vector: 1072–1325 · vector: 1188–1271 · vector: 1192–1362 · vector: 1202–1284 · vector: 1206–1271 · vector: 1206–1304 · vector: 1210–1304 · vector: 1236–1278 · vector: 1236–1284 · vector: 1236–1293 · vector: 1241–1271 · vector: 1250–1271 · vector: 1250–1278 · vector: 1250–1284 · vector: 1250–1293 · vector: 1250–1414 · vector: 1260–1271 · vector: 1260–1278 · vector: 1260–1284 · vector: 1260–1304 · vector: 1260–1384 · vector: 1260–1394 · vector: 1271
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