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- DictionaryCru·sade/kro͞oˈsād/
noun
- 1. each of a series of medieval military expeditions made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries: "the fanaticism engendered by the Crusades"
- 2. a vigorous campaign for political, social, or religious change: "a crusade against crime"
verb
- 1. lead or take part in a vigorous campaign for social, political, or religious change: "he crusaded against gambling in the 1950s"
1 day ago · Crusades were religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period. The term refers to various military expeditions to the Holy Land and other regions, often with papal indulgences and penitential motives.
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1 day ago · The crusades were religious wars that the Christian Latin church initiated, supported, and sometimes directed in the Middle Ages. The members of the church defined this movement in legal and theological terms that were based on the concepts of holy war and pilgrimage.
Aug 5, 2024 · The Crusades were a series of religious and military campaigns initiated by European Christians between the 11th and 13th centuries. They aimed to reclaim the Holy Land, particularly Jerusalem, from Muslim rule, and to support the Byzantine Empire against Muslim advances.
2 days ago · First Crusade. The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the Middle Ages. The objective was the recovery of the Holy Land from Islamic rule.
- 15 August 1096-12 August 1099 [ A]
- Crusader victory
- The Levant and Anatolia
1 day ago · Roman Catholicism - Crusades, Papacy, Doctrine: The increased authority of the papacy and the relative decline in the power of the emperor became clear in the unforeseen emergence of the Crusades as a major preoccupation of Europe.
Aug 16, 2024 · Third Crusade, military expedition (1189–92) that was mounted by western European Christians in an attempt to retake the Crusader states in the Levant (most notably the kingdom of Jerusalem) that had fallen to Muslim leader Saladin in 1187 as a result of his victory in the Battle of Ḥaṭṭīn.
Aug 25, 2024 · Definitions of First Crusade. noun. a Crusade from 1096 to 1099; captured Jerusalem and created a theocracy there. see more.