Frankish seaborne raid on the coast and the truce

خروج الفرنج بالشام والصلح معهم

c. 1204 CE · 600 AH

al-Sham (Greater Syria)

Large Frankish fleets reached the Syrian coast while the Muslim armies were consumed by the succession wars; a truce followed 1.

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1190120012101220 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Many Franks set out by sea for Syria, and the absence of the armies during the civil wars made it easy for them. Then a truce was made between them and the Muslims. 1

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al-Sham (Greater Syria)
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The Franks (Ifranja)

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Sources

  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 291
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