The kingdom was soon increasingly dominated by the Italian city-states of Venice and Genoa. Dynastic ties also strengthened with Tripoli, Antioch, and Armenia. The kingdom was ruled by King Aimery of Lusignan (1197–1205), the King of Cyprus, another crusader state founded during the Third Crusade. Further east, various Muslim emirates were located which were ultimately allied with the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad. Beyond these to the north and west lay the states of Armenian Cilicia and the Byzantine Empire, with which Jerusalem had a close relationship in the twelfth century. While all three were independent, they were closely tied to Jerusalem. Three other Crusader states founded during and after the First Crusade were located further north: the County of Edessa (1097–1144), the Principality of Antioch (1098–1268), and the County of Tripoli (1109–1289). From the Mediterranean Sea, the kingdom extended in a thin strip of land from Beirut in the north to the Sinai Desert in the south into modern Jordan and Syria in the east, and towards Fatimid Egypt in the west.
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Acre remained the capital, except for the two decades which followed Frederick II of Hohenstaufen regaining the city of Jerusalem from the Ayyubids during the Sixth Crusade through diplomacy. This second kingdom is sometimes called the Second Kingdom of Jerusalem or the Kingdom of Acre, after its new capital. Following the Third Crusade, the kingdom was re-established in Acre in 1192, and lasted until the city's destruction in 1291.
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The First Kingdom of Jerusalem lasted from 1099 to 1187 before being almost entirely overrun by Saladin. Its history is divided into two distinct periods. The kingdom lasted nearly two hundred years, from 1099 until 1291 when its last remaining possession, Acre, was destroyed by the Mamluks.
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The Kingdom of Jerusalem ( Latin: Regnum Hierosolymitanum Old French: Roiaume de Jherusalem), officially known as the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem or the Frankish Kingdom of Palestine, was a Crusader state established in the Southern Levant by Godfrey of Bouillon in 1099 after the First Crusade.