Crusades

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The Crusades were a series of medieval religious wars, primarily between Western European Christians and Muslim powers, fought over control of the Holy Land and other territories from the late 11th to the late 13th centuries.

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Surface form Occurrences
Crusader period 1
The Crusades 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf medieval conflict
series of religious wars
associatedOrder Knights Hospitaller
Knights Templar
Teutonic Order
surface form: Teutonic Knights
culturalImpact exchange of knowledge between Islamic world and Western Europe
influence on chivalric literature
transmission of classical texts to Western Europe
endApproximateDate late 13th century
endEvent Ninth Crusade
geographicScope Anatolia
Baltic Sea coast region
surface form: Baltic region

Iberian Peninsula
Levant region
surface form: Levant

North Africa
historicalSignificance long-term influence on Christian–Muslim relations
major factor in shaping medieval Mediterranean politics
ideologicalBasis concept of crusade indulgence
idea of holy war
initiatedBy Papacy
Pope Urban II
justification recovery of Christian holy places
keySpeech Council of Clermont
keySpeechDate 1095
majorCampaign Albigensian Crusade
Children's Crusade
First Crusade
Fourth Crusade
Ninth Crusade
Northern Crusades
Second Crusade
Third Crusade
notableOutcome capture of Jerusalem in 1099
establishment of Crusader states
loss of Jerusalem to Saladin in 1187
sack of Constantinople in 1204
primaryBelligerent Latin Church worldwide
surface form: Latin Church

Muslim powers
Western European Christians
primaryGoal control of Jerusalem
control of the Holy Sepulchre
primaryTheater Eastern Mediterranean
Holy Land
religiousCharacter Christian holy wars
religiousImpact development of military religious orders
intensification of papal authority claims
result deepened Christian–Muslim hostility
increased trade between Europe and the Near East
strengthening of Italian maritime republics
temporary Latin control of parts of the Levant
weakening of Byzantine Empire
secondaryGoal control of trade routes
defense of Byzantine Empire
expansion of Latin Christendom
startDate 1096
startEvent First Crusade
timePeriod late 11th century to late 13th century

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Latin West associatedEvent Crusades
King of Sicily associatedWith Crusades
Temple Church associatedWith Crusades
FERT associatedWithEvent Crusades
Ayyubid dynasty conflict Crusades
Byzantine Empire conflict Crusades
Saladin conflict Crusades
Third Crusade conflict Crusades
Rhodes historicalPeriod Crusades
this entity surface form: Crusader period
Gesta Francorum mainSubject Crusades
Tancred movement Crusades
subject surface form: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Katherine DeMille notableWork Crusades
this entity surface form: The Crusades
First Crusade partOf Crusades
Fourth Crusade partOf Crusades
Second Crusade partOf Crusades
Third Crusade partOf Crusades
Papacy playedRoleIn Crusades
Limassol Castle usedDuring Crusades