In 1099 the fall of Jerusalem to the First Crusaders had seen a massacre of the Muslim population of the city that one western chronicler called an ‘indescribable slaughter’. But, nearly two ...

Many people responded to the Pope's wishes by joining the Crusades - showing this by cutting out red crosses and sewing them onto their tunics. The loss of Jerusalem was a terrible blow to the ...

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Sparked by a zeal to rid the Holy Lands of "infidels"—meaning Moslems primarily—only the First Crusade achieved any real or lasting success. It established Christian settlements, the so-called ...

First four Crusades, a series of religious wars to the Holy Land, to conquer Jerusalem and its surrounding area by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period. crusades map stock illustrations ...

It ostensibly sets out to retrace the steps of one Thorvald, an Icelandic convert to Christianity who travelled from his own land to Jerusalem in the eleventh century. In truth, however, we lose sight ...

First Station view. Known as the Jerusalem–Khan railway station when in operation, it was used between 1892 and 1998, before the Malha station became Jerusalem’s primary rail terminus.

📜 History of Saladin & the 3rd Crusade: Defending Jerusalem - And so we come to the negotiations between Saladin and Richard the Lionheart, where some of the best-known stories of the Crusades ...