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The 4th Crusade was originally created to conquer Jerusalem, which was Muslim-ruled by an invasion through Egypt. Instead, in April of 1204, the crusaders of Western Europe invaded and sacked the Orthodox Christian city of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. The crusaders established the short lived Latin Empire and other "Latin states" in the Byzantine lands they conquered.

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