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Zara, Siege of

Years: 1202 - 1202

The Siege of Zara or Siege of Zadar (Croatian: Opsada Zadra) (November 10-November 23, 1202) is the first major action of the Fourth Crusade and the first attack against a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders.

The Fourth Crusade sacks the Croatian town of Zadar, a rival of Venice, despite letters from Pope Innocent III forbidding such an action and threatening excommunication.

"[the character] Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree."

― Michael Crichton, Timeline (November 1999)