- Crusades - Wikipedia
The Crusades were a series of military campaigns launched by the papacy between 1095 and 1291 against Muslim rulers for the recovery and defence of the Holy Land (Palestine), encouraged by promises of spiritual reward
- Definition, History, Map, Significance, Legacy - Britannica
Crusades, military expeditions, beginning in the late 11th century, that were organized by western European Christians in response to centuries of Muslim wars of expansion
- Crusades - World History Encyclopedia
The Crusades were a series of military campaigns organised by popes and Christian western powers to take Jerusalem and the Holy Land back from Muslim control and then defend those gains There were eight major official crusades between 1095 and 1270, as well as many more unofficial ones
- The Crusades: Definition, Religious Wars Facts | HISTORY
To govern the conquered territory, those who remained established four large western settlements, or Crusader states, in Jerusalem, Edessa, Antioch and Tripoli
- CRUSADER Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
Crusader : a person who participated in any of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries to win the Holy Land from the Muslims
- What were the crusades? – Smarthistory
Imagine a man-at-arms in the French city of Clermont in 1095 He is listening to Pope Urban II—the only pope he has ever seen in person!—speak passionately about the need to fight in the Holy Land His lord is persuaded, and gathers his men and resources
- CRUSADER | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
Opposing against Soldiers people who fight in wars (Definition of crusader from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
- Crusades - Holy War, Kingdoms, Reconquista | Britannica
From Antioch south, the Crusaders held a narrow strip of coastland bounded by mountains to the north and by the Jordan Valley in the south To the east beyond the Syrian desert lay the Muslim cities of Aleppo, Ḥamāh, Ḥimṣ, and Damascus
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