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| rdfs:label | - Battle of Adrianople (1205)
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| rdfs:comment | - The armies of the Fourth Crusade deviated from their stated goal of Jerusalem and instead captured and sacked the Christian city of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, in 1204. The Bulgarian kingdom and Byzantine remnants soon united against the newly founded Latin Empire.
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| Strength | - Unknown, probably several tens of thousands. Certain number - 300 West European heavy mounted knights, mainly from France.
- Around 14,000 Cuman light and missile cavalry.
- Around 40,000 bulgarian troops - infantry, cavalry and archers.
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| Casualties | - Several thousand soldiers and almost all of the knights.
- Unknown, light.
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| Result | - Decisive Bulgarian victory and capture of the Latin Emperor Baldwin I
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| Place | - Surroundings of Adrianople
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| Conflict | |
| abstract | - The armies of the Fourth Crusade deviated from their stated goal of Jerusalem and instead captured and sacked the Christian city of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, in 1204. The Bulgarian kingdom and Byzantine remnants soon united against the newly founded Latin Empire.
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