Anatolia and the Levant · Animated schematic fronts

First Crusade

Crusading forces travelled to the Levant and took Jerusalem.

This war had no continuous front. The line is a schematic limit of advance and operations: it summarises campaigns and is not a trench line or an administrative border. The coloured areas are operational sides, not evidence of contiguous occupation; in-between frames are interpolated and closing edges are graphic. The line follows the march of the crusader army; most of the territory behind it returned to Byzantine or local hands and was not contiguously occupied.