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Bookmark or Share- Crusades | Definition, History, Map, Significance, & Legacy | BritannicaCrusades, 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 Timeline - World History EncyclopediaThe 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. Reign of Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
- Crusades - WikipediaThe Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.
- The Crusades (1095–1291) - The Metropolitan Museum of ArtConsidered at the time to be divinely sanctioned, these campaigns, involving often ruthless battles, are known as the Crusades. At their core was a desire for access to shrines associated with the life and ministry of Jesus, above all the Holy Sepulcher, the church in Jerusalem said to contain the tomb of Christ (2005.100.373.100).
- The Crusades: Causes & Goals - World History EncyclopediaThe Crusades were a series of military campaigns organised by Christian powers in order to retake Jerusalem and the Holy Land back from Muslim control. There would be eight officially sanctioned crusades between 1095 CE and 1270 CE and many more unofficial ones.
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