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The great series of western holy wars were the Crusades, which lasted from 1095 until 1291 CE. The aim was to capture the sacred places in the Holy Land from the Muslims who lived there ...

Spanning most of the High Middle Ages (1050-1300 CE), a series of military expeditions called the Crusades was launched from Christian Europe against the peoples of the Near East. Sparked by a zeal to ...

stretched from stretched from India, in South Asia, to Spain, in Western Europe, and included Jerusalem and the Holy Land close ... is encouraging men to go on a Crusade In the medieval period ...

In his latest book, Crusaders: An Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands, Jones tells the the history of the Crusades, the sequence of religious wars that led to the founding of the Knights ...

On 27 November 1095, Pope Urban II makes perhaps the most influential speech of the Middle Ages, giving rise to the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to ...

The Crusades, which began in 1095 and lasted for centuries, saw European Christians travel to the Middle East to try and seize control of Jerusalem and other parts of the Holy Land from Muslims.