The Crusaders looted, terrorized, and vandalized Constantinople for three days...

>The Crusaders looted, terrorized, and vandalized Constantinople for three days, during which many ancient and medieval Roman and Greek works were either stolen or destroyed. The famous bronze horses from the Hippodrome were sent back to adorn the façade of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, where they remain. As well as being stolen, works of immeasurable artistic value were destroyed merely for their material value. One of the most precious works to suffer such a fate was a large bronze statue of Hercules, created by the legendary Lysippos, court sculptor of Alexander the Great. Like so many other priceless artworks made of bronze, the statue was melted down for its content by the Crusaders. The great Library of Constantinople was destroyed as well.

>Despite their oaths and the threat of excommunication, the Crusaders systematically violated the city's holy sanctuaries, destroying or stealing all they could lay hands on; nothing was spared, not even the tombs of the emperors inside the St Apostles church. The civilian population of Constantinople were subject to the Crusaders' ruthless lust for spoils and glory; thousands of them were killed in cold blood. Women, even nuns, were raped by the Crusader army, which also sacked churches, monasteries and convents. The very altars of these churches were smashed and torn to pieces for their gold and marble by the warriors. Although the Venetians engaged in looting too, their actions were far more restrained.[citation needed] Doge Dandolo still appeared to have far more control over his men. Rather than wantonly destroying all around like their comrades, the Venetians stole religious relics and works of art, which they would later take to Venice to adorn their own churches.
Based old man Enrico.Those sea merchant Jews have been screwing Byzanshits since forever.

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Even 250 years later at the very end they were still screwing them over:

>Just before midnight on 3 May, a Venetian ship, disguising itself as a Turkish vessel, slipped out of the Golden Horn. It returned twenty days later with crushing news: they had scouted the Dardanelles and the Aegean and seen no sign of a Venetian fleet. The men had nonetheless decided to return to Constantinople to report the news, even though it meant they would probably share the city's doom.
Constantine tearfully thanked each one of the crew for their service.

>The great Library of Constantinople was destroyed as well.
So much knowledge has been lost.

>d-dont worry it was preserved in Baghdad during the Islamic golden age!1!1!111

>Even Turks were considered more trustworthy than Venetians
kek

Stay mad turkroaches

>The Crusaders

The G*rmans*

If that means you're acknowledging France to be rightful German clay, then yes.
> Republic of Venice
> Holy Roman Empire
> March of Montferrat
> County of Hainaut
> Prince-Bishopric of Halberstadt
> Pairis Abbey
> Kingdom of France
> County of Champagne
> County of Blois
> Duchy of Burgundy
> County of Flanders
> County of Saint-Pol
> Île-de-France
> Amiens

I-irrelevant h-history!
D-d-deus vult, b-brothers!

>Enrico Dandolo
Germanic

>Boniface I of Montferrat
Latin

>Theobald III of Champagne
Germanic

>Balduin of Flanders
Germanic

>Louis I of Blois
Germanic

>Hugh IV of Saint-Pol
Germanic

>Conrad of Halberstadt
Germanic

>Martin of Pairis
Latin

>Alexios IV Angelos
Greek


It was a mostly German crusade

>Catholicuck entire line of defense against its own screwups consists of pointing fingers at Krauts whenever their past comes back to haunt them

Tob geg. :DDD

The German is immunized against all dangers: one may call him a larper, autist, wewuzzer, snownigger, it all runs off him like water off a raincoat. But call him a German and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: “I've been found out.”

One cannot defend himself against the German. He blitzkrieg with lightning speed from his position of safety and uses his abilities to crush any attempt at defense.

Quickly he turns the attacker’s charges back on him and the attacker becomes the liar, the troublemaker, the terrorist. Nothing could be more mistaken than to defend oneself. That is just what the German wants. He can invent a new lie every day for the enemy to respond to, and the result is that the enemy spends so much time defending himself that he has no time to do what the German really fears: to attack. The accused has become the accuser, and loudly he shoves the accuser into the dock. So it always was in the past when a person or a movement fought the German. That is what would happen to us as well were we not fully aware of his nature, and if we lacked the courage to draw the following radical conclusions:

the amount of mental gymnastics you have to justify hatred of Germans is laughable.

Bro, given that you have probably read zero medieval manuscripts, you have no claim to muh possible history

>Bro
KYS

1. One cannot fight the German by positive means. He is a negative, and this negative must be erased from the European system or he will forever corrupt it.
2. One cannot discuss the German question with the Germans. One can hardly prove to a person that one has the duty to render him harmless.
3. One cannot allow the German the same means one would give an honest opponent, for he is no honorable opponent. He will use generosity and nobility only to trap his enemy.
4. The German has nothing to say about European questions. He is a foreigner, an alien, who only enjoys the rights of a guest, rights that he always abuses.
5. The so-called industrious spirit of the Germans is no industry at all, rather an encouragement to exploit other Europeans. Therefore, they have no claim to protection from the state.
6. The German is not smarter than we are, rather only cleverer and craftier. His system cannot be defeated economically — he follows entirely different moral principles than we do. It can only be broken through political means.
7. A German cannot insult an European. German slanders are but badges of honor for an European opponent of the Germans.
8. The more an European person or an European movement opposes the German, the more valuable it is. If someone is attacked by the Germans, that is a sure sign of his virtue. He who is not persecuted by the Germans, or who is praised by them, is useless and dangerous.
9. The German evaluates European questions from the German standpoint. As a result, the opposite of what he says must be true.
10. One must either affirm or reject anti-Germanism. He who defends the Germans harms his own people. One can only be a German lackey or a German opponent. Opposing the Germans is a matter of racial hygiene.

This is the most retarded argument I've seen today.
Day in and day out you benefit from near-entirety of human knowledge available, despite the fact that only a scant percent of population actually reads books on the very principles that made everything around them possible.
Most of us only rely on the awareness that such knowledge exists somewhere - does that diminish our curiosity whenever it flares up and makes us wonder how much more there could have been were it not for wanton destruction of heritage?

These principles give the anti-German movement a chance of success. Only such a movement will be taken seriously by the Germans, only such a movement will be feared by them.

The fact that he shouts and complains about such a movement therefore is only a sign that it is right. We are therefore delighted that we are constantly attacked in the EU's gazettes. They may shout about terror. We answer with Orban’s familiar words: “We need to make it clear to the EU that it is pointless even to start proceedings against Poland as there is no chance of seeing it through - because Hungary will be there and form an insurmountable road block.”

Veeky Forums really needs to gain a flag system and poster id codes, as this shitfest only helps turn this board into bizarro /pol/.

t. Jarosław Kaczyński.

>Republic of Venice

Latins

> March of Montferrat

Latins

> County of Hainaut

G*rmanoids

> Prince-Bishopric of Halberstadt

G*rmanoids

> Pairis Abbey

G*rmanoids

> County of Champagne

G*rmanoids

> County of Blois

G*rmanoids

> Duchy of Burgundy

G*rmanoids

> County of Flanders

G*rmanoids

> County of Saint-Pol

G*rmanoids

> Île-de-France

G*rmanoids

> Amiens

G*rmanoids

Maybe they shouldn't have allied with the Turks or massacred the Catholics before.

The entire French nobility was of Germanic origin.

>23andMe's Italian ancestry is interesting as it may represent traces of ancient Roman ancestry. This component peaks in north-central to south-central Italy, approximately from northern Tuscany to Campania, where individuals generally have between 70 and 85% of Italian admixture, but quickly drops to around 50% in Lombardy and Piedmont, and only 5% across the Alps in Provence. That component has an average of around 1% in Belgium, but is slightly higher in Luxembourg (1.8%) and Wallonia (1.5%) than in Flanders (0.7%). Half of Flemish participants completely lacked it, especially those from the provinces of West Flanders and Antwerp. The highest levels in Flanders (2 to 3%) were in Flemish Brabant. Almost all Walloon participants had some Italian admixture, the highest being 3.6% in the province of Namur. In the Netherlands, there was a sharp divide between the southern provinces of Limburg and Noord-Brabant (1 to 1.5%) and the rest of the country (typically 0%), which is in agreement with the stronger historical Roman presence in the south of the country.

>The French & German shows the reverse pattern of the British & Irish component. This admixture probably correspond to a blend of Gaulish and Frankish ancestry. It is in fact higher in Wallonia (45%, ranging from 28% to 70%) than in Flanders (36%, ranging from 10% to 46%). The Netherlands also has a strong north-south gradient, with 40% in the south and 18% in the north. The French and German admixture peaks in Wallonia, southern Germany and Switzerland, a region were the Franks and Alemani/Suebi mixed with the descendants of the La Tène Celts.

>Maciamo's autism

Into the trash it goes

>The Massacre of the Latins (Italian: Massacro dei Latini; Greek: Σφαγή των Λατίνων) was a large-scale massacre of the Roman Catholic (called "Latin") inhabitants of Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, by the Eastern Orthodox population of the city in April 1182.[1][2]

>The Roman Catholics of Constantinople at that time dominated the city's maritime trade and financial sector.[1] Although precise numbers are unavailable, the bulk of the Latin community, estimated at 60,000 at the time by Eustathius of Thessalonica,[1] was wiped out or forced to flee. The Genoese and Pisan communities especially were decimated, and some 4,000 survivors were sold as slaves to the (Turkish) Sultanate of Rum.[3]

>The massacre further worsened relations and increased enmity between the Western and Eastern Christian churches,[4] and a sequence of hostilities between the two followed.

>The massacre further worsened the image of the Byzantines in the West, and although regular trade agreements were soon resumed between Byzantium and Latin states, the underlying hostility would remain, leading to a spiraling chain of hostilities: a Norman expedition under William II of Sicily in 1185 sacked Thessalonica, the Empire's second largest city, and the German emperors Frederick Barbarossa and Henry VI both threatened to attack Constantinople.[15]

>The worsening relationship culminated with the brutal sack of the city of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, which led to the permanent alienation of Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholics. The massacre itself however remains relatively obscure, and Catholic historian Warren Carroll notes that "Historians who wax eloquent and indignant—with considerable reason—about the sack of Constantinople ... rarely if ever mention the massacre of the Westerners in ... 1182."[13]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_the_Latins

>Following the death of Manuel I in 1180, his widow, the Latin princess Maria of Antioch, acted as regent to her infant son Alexios II Komnenos. Her regency was notorious for the favoritism shown to Latin merchants and the big aristocratic land-owners, and was overthrown in April 1182 by Andronikos I Komnenos, who entered the city in a wave of popular support.[1][12] Almost immediately, the celebrations spilled over into violence towards the hated Latins, and after entering the city's Latin quarter a mob began attacking the inhabitants.[4]

>Many had anticipated the events and escaped by sea.[3] The ensuing massacre was indiscriminate: neither women nor children were spared, and Latin patients lying in hospital beds were murdered.[4] Houses, churches, and charities were looted.[4] Latin clergymen received special attention, and Cardinal John, the papal legate, was beheaded and his head was dragged through the streets at the tail of a dog.[3][13]

>Although Andronikos himself had no particular anti-Latin attitude, he allowed the massacre to proceed unchecked.[14] A few years later, Andronikos I himself was deposed and handed over to the mob of Constantinople citizenry, and was tortured and summarily executed in the Hippodrome by Latin soldiers.

Assblasted G*rmutt.

>French language developed as a corrupted version of the Latin spoken by the Franks, which evolved further away from the original Latin after the fall of the Roman Empire. This is why French pronunciation is so different from other Romance languages, and includes many sounds typically found in Germanic languages, like the French "eu" (written "ö" or "o" in most Germanic languages), the "u" ("ü" or "y"), the "e" (the schwa), the "è" ("ä"), or the short "o" ("å" in Scandinavian languages and in Walloon).

>french calling anyone a mutt

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH OH NO NO NO NO NO NO NO HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

>amerimutt
pls fuck off
Veeky Forums is a mongrel-free board

>Before Rollo's arrival, its populations did not differ from Picardy or the Île-de-France, which were considered "Frankish". Earlier Viking settlers had begun arriving in the 880s, but were divided between colonies in the east (Roumois and Pays de Caux) around the low Seine valley and in the west in the Cotentin Peninsula, and were separated by traditional pagii, where the population remained about the same with almost no foreign settlers. Rollo's contingents who raided and ultimately settled Normandy and parts of the Atlantic coast included Danes, Norwegians, Norse–Gaels, Orkney Vikings, possibly Swedes, and Anglo-Danes from the English Danelaw under Norse control.

>Rouen
>important peuplement nordique

HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

:)

Filthy G*rmoid authism.

kek

the most embarrassing event in Europe's history, muslims to this day consider it a miracle

>muslims to this day consider it a miracle
No they don't. Most don't know about it, or even care.

no? there were more important shit going down in egypt with the mamlukes, most doesnt even know about the 4th crusade happened

>Sell trade rights to venice because you're incompetent shit empire
>Oy vey.. you're doing too well now! *starts pogrom on latins and sells leftovers of massacre to turks as slaves*
>get hit by based dondalo
>WE DINDU NUFFING EVIL CRUSADERS WTF
do it again
based dondalo

Yes you do

There's some hadith about how Constantinople will fall to the hand of someone named after a prophet.

>hadith
Opinion discarded.

This is the reason why i support Arabs and Ottomans every time over crusader subhumans.

>doesn't mention of the Latin chimpouts in the same article
>no mention of the Venetian crusade's atrocities towards the Aegean
Sneaky Latin

>Let’s kill women and children over a few shitty merchants

It makes no one wonder as most of those books contained useless "knowledge".

The OrthoLARPer vs the Chadtholic.

DO IT AGAIN DANDOLO!

Byzashits fucking deserved it.

>because the Latins were SO tolerant when it comes to Jews or Muslims
The emperor gave them too many chances.

There's also a whole Sura written about how the mighty Romans will lose to the muslims, not sure if this refers to the Byzantines or actual imperial Rome, but the ass-kicking of the ERE and the taking of Jerusalem was seen by muzzies as: Hey,see, the quran was right.

the cruzaders did a very good job exterminating those subhuman.
very well done my boys

[spoiler]Greeks had it coming desu.[/spoiler]

All these edgy roaches and whit*ys

>Women, even nuns, were raped by the Crusader army,

Giving out the HOLY SEED is always something to be praised.