Back Massacre dels Llatins Catalan Latinermassakren Danish Σφαγή των Λατίνων Greek Masacre de los Latinos Spanish کشتار لاتینیها Persian Massacre des Latins de Constantinople French טבח הלטינים HE Pokolj Latina Croatian Pembantaian orang-orang Latin ID Massacro dei Latini Italian
| Massacre of the Latins | |
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 Map of Constantinople in the Byzantine period. The Latin quarters are captioned in purple. | |
| Location | Constantinople, Byzantine Empire |
| Date | April 1182 |
| Target | Roman Catholics ("Latins") |
Attack type | Massacre |
| Deaths | several tens of thousands |
| Perpetrators | Andronikos Komnenos, Greek Eastern Christian mob |
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The Massacre of the Latins (Italian: Massacro dei Latini; Greek: Σφαγὴ τῶν 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 devastated, and some 4,000 survivors were sold as slaves to the (Turkish) Sultanate of Rum.[3][4]
The massacre further worsened relations and increased enmity between the Western and Eastern Christian churches,[5] and a sequence of hostilities between the two followed.
- ^ a b c Ducellier 1986, pp. 506–508.
- ^ Gregory, Timothy (2010). A History of Byzantium. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 309. ISBN 978-1-4051-8471-7.
- ^ Nicol 1988, p. 107.
- ^ Vasiliev, Alexander A. (1964). History of the Byzantine Empire, 324–1453, Volume II. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 379. ISBN 978-0-299-80926-3.
- ^ Vasiliev, Aleksandr (1958). History of the Byzantine Empire. 2, Volume 2. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 446. ISBN 978-0-299-80926-3.
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