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18 hours ago · A military order ( Latin: militaris ordo) is a Christian religious society of knights. The original military orders were the Knights Templar, the Knights Hospitaller, the Order of Saint James, the Order of Calatrava, and the Teutonic Knights. They arose in the Middle Ages in association with the Crusades, both in the Holy Land, the Baltics, and ...
18 hours ago · Jaffa. Jaffa ( Hebrew: יָפוֹ, romanized : Yāfō, pronounced [jaˈfo] ⓘ; Arabic: يَافَا, romanized : Yāfā, pronounced [ˈjaːfaː] ), also called Japho or Joppa in English, is an ancient Levantine port city founded by the Canaanites that is now part of southern Tel Aviv, Israel. Sitting atop a naturally elevated outcrop on the ...