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The.. CrusadersCrusades Crusades Religious wars of the High Middle Ages This article is about the religious wars waged by Western Christians to seize the Holy Land from Muslim control between the 11th and 13th centuries. For the theoretical, sociological, institutional, military, and financial dimensions of crusading, see Crusading movement. For other uses, see Crusades (disambiguation). The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and at times directed by the Papacy during the Middle Ages. The most prominent of these were the campaigns to the Holy Land aimed at seizing Jerusalem and its surrounding territories from Muslim rule. Beginning with the First Crusade, which culminated in the capture of Jerusalem in 1099, these expeditions spanned centuries and became a central… (Source: Wikipedia)
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