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Showing posts with label Turks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Turks. Show all posts
29 September 2025

The People's Crusade Ends

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After the terrible situation (for the People's Crusade ) at Xerigordos , where several thousand German Crusaders were converted to Islam...
21 May 2025

Osman I

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Osman Ghazi is one of those many figures in history whose impact was large but whose life's details are not well known. We are not even ...
20 May 2025

The Fall of Trebizond

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The Trebizond Empire  (the orange slice on the southern shore of the Black Sea illustration), founded in 1204 on the shores of the Black Sea...
07 November 2024

Louis and the Second Crusade, Part 1

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The Second Crusade was the first to be led by European kings. It was announced by Pope Eugene III , preached widely by Bernard of Clairvaux ...
26 May 2023

Emperor Alexios I Comnenos

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Alexios I Comnenos (1057 - 1118) was the Byzantine emperor during the start of the Crusades. Since the Byzantines were a part of the old Rom...
25 May 2023

Kilij Arslan I

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Kilij Arslan I (1079 - 1107) was the Sultan of Rum; it was he who had to deal with the Europeans of the First Crusade when they attempted t...
23 May 2023

The Battle of Mersivan

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The Crusade of 1101 had high hopes: the First Crusade had already been successful, establishing the Kingdom of Jerusalem, and the Germans, ...
20 October 2012

The First First Crusade

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To be thorough: there was more to the plan. Emperor Alexios I of Byzantium had requested help from the pope against invading Turks, and the ...