Qualla: Fall of Tripoli (1289) https://qualla.com/fall-of-tripoli-1289 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/m/c/7/fall-of-tripoli-1289-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Fall of Tripoli (1289) https://qualla.com/fall-of-tripoli-1289 Fall of Tripoli (1289): Introduction https://qualla.com/fall-of-tripoli-1289/ Photo credit Heretiq, CC BY-SA 2.5. Two men went down to Alexandria. According to the chronicle known as the Templar of Tyre, they carried a warning to the Mamluk Sultan Qalawun: the Genoese were consolidating their grip on the port of Tripoli, and if left unchecked, 'they will rule the waves.' It was exactly the excuse Qalawun needed. He had a truce with the Crusader County of Tripoli, but the bickering Christian factions had handed him the pretext to break it. In March 1289, his army arrived with catapults. By April, a city that had been Christian for 180 years lay in ruins.

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/m/c/7/fall-of-tripoli-1289-wp/smc7-fall-of-tripoli-1289-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Fall of Tripoli (1289): A County Between Empires https://qualla.com/fall-of-tripoli-1289/ Photo credit Heretiq, CC BY-SA 2.5. The County of Tripoli occupied one of the most precarious positions in the medieval world. Founded as a Crusader state, it had been a vassal of the Mongol Empire since around 1260, when Bohemond VI submitted to the rapidly advancing Mongols under the influence of his Armenian fat...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/m/c/7/fall-of-tripoli-1289-wp/smc7-fall-of-tripoli-1289-a-county-between-empires.mp3 0:06 2 full Fall of Tripoli (1289): Christians Divided https://qualla.com/fall-of-tripoli-1289/ Photo credit Heretiq, CC BY-SA 2.5. What the Mamluks could not accomplish by force alone, the Crusaders helped achieve through their own discord. After Bohemond VII died in 1287, a succession crisis tore the county apart. His sister Lucia, rightfully the heir, was in far-off Apulia. His mother Sibylla of Armenia tr...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/m/c/7/fall-of-tripoli-1289-wp/smc7-fall-of-tripoli-1289-christians-divided.mp3 0:06 3 full Fall of Tripoli (1289): Catapults Against the Walls https://qualla.com/fall-of-tripoli-1289/ Photo credit Heretiq, CC BY-SA 2.5. Qalawun arrived in March 1289 with a massive army and siege catapults. The defenders scrambled. Lucia was given supreme authority. In the harbor sat four Genoese galleys, two Venetian, and a few small Pisan boats. Reinforcements came from the Knights Templar under Geoffroy de Van...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/m/c/7/fall-of-tripoli-1289-wp/smc7-fall-of-tripoli-1289-catapults-against-the-walls.mp3 0:06 4 full Fall of Tripoli (1289): Razed and Rebuilt Elsewhere https://qualla.com/fall-of-tripoli-1289/ Photo credit Heretiq, CC BY-SA 2.5. Those who took refuge on the nearby island of Saint-Thomas were captured three days later. Women and children were enslaved. Twelve hundred prisoners were sent to Alexandria to labor in the Sultan's new arsenal. Qalawun ordered Tripoli razed to the ground and a new city built inl...

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