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27 June 2025
The Fatimids Sack Genoa
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In the 10th century, Genoa was becoming an important port on the Ligurian Coast in far northwest Italy. Their ships were trading with much o...
26 June 2025
Genoa the Superb
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Actually, when Petrarch referred to Genoa as "la Superba" he meant "the proud one." Genoa, on the northwest coast of th...
22 March 2025
Salah ad-Din
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Perhaps the most prominent Muslim in the centuries of the Crusading period was Yusuf ibn Ayyub, a Kurdish man who was given the nickname or ...
06 March 2022
A Tale of Two Caliphs
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The previous post post discussed a hospital site in the Christian section of Jerusalem called Muristan. I say a hospital "site" be...
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