- 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
- Crusades | 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
- The Crusades: Definition, Religious Wars Facts | HISTORY
The Crusades were a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims started primarily to secure control of holy sites considered sacred by both groups In all, eight major Crusade
- Timeline of the Crusades - World History Edu
The Crusades were a series of religious and military campaigns initiated by European Christians between the 11th and 13th centuries They aimed to reclaim the Holy Land, particularly Jerusalem, from Muslim rule, and to support the Byzantine Empire against Muslim advances
- The Crusades: Faith, Warfare, and Politics in Medieval Europe
The Crusades stand as one of the most significant and complex chapters in medieval European history These military campaigns, conducted from the late 11th to the late 13th centuries, aimed to reclaim Christian holy sites in Palestine, expand the political influence of European monarchs, and protect Christian states in the Eastern Mediterranean
- What You Need to Know About the Crusades - ThoughtCo
Initially, only those expeditions to the Holy Land (Jerusalem and associated territory) were considered Crusades More recently, historians have also recognized campaigns against heretics, pagans, and Muslims in Europe as Crusades
- 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
- What were the crusades? - Smarthistory
Muslim voices, whether in the Iberian Peninsula (what is now Spain and Portugal), the Levant (the eastern Mediterranean), or further afield, described the crusades in different ways—often as simple territorial expansion, religious warfare, or a combination of the two
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