The Crusades were a series of military campaigns organised by popes and Christian western powers to take Jerusalem and the Holy Land back from Muslim control and then defend those gains. https://www.worldhistory.org/Crusades/ #History #AlbigensianCrusade #BattleofHattin #BattleofNicopolis

In the aftermath of the failure of the Second Crusade (1147-1149 CE), which only managed to bring Damascus under Nur ad-Din's (sometimes also given as Nur al-Din, l. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1487/zengids--the-crusaders-race-for-egypt-1163-1169-ce/ #History #BattleofHattin #CrusaderStates #Crusades

In the aftermath of the failure of the Second Crusade (1147-1149 CE), which only managed to bring Damascus under Nur ad-Din's (sometimes also given as Nur al-Din, l. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1487/zengids--the-crusaders-race-for-egypt-1163-1169-ce/ #History #BattleofHattin #CrusaderStates #Crusades

The Kingdom of Jerusalem was a state created in 1099 CE by Crusaders and western settlers after the First Crusade (1095-1102 CE). https://www.worldhistory.org/Kingdom_of_Jerusalem/ #History #BattleofHattin #CrusaderStates #Crusades

Saladin (c. 1137 – 1193 CE), the Muslim ruler who crushed the mighty Crusader army at the Horns of Hattin (1187 CE) and re-took Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader control, was born in a world where the disunity of the Muslims had allowed foreign invaders to take over their territory. The Islamic front was divided between the Sunni Abbasid caliphate of Baghdad and the Shia Fatimid caliphate of...https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1384/saladin--the-unification-of-the-muslim-front-1169/ #BattleofHattin #CrusaderStates #IslamicCaliphates

Jerusalem, a holy city for the adherents of all three great monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) was conquered by the armies of the First Crusade in 1099 CE. The Muslims failed to halt their advance, as they were themselves disunited and disorganized, but this was soon to change and the Holy City was to be retaken. Saladin (l. 1137-1193 CE), the Sultan of Egypt and Syria, w...https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1553/saladins-conquest-of-jerusalem-1187-ce/ #BattleofHattin #Crusades #FirstCrusade

Saladin (1137-93) was the Muslim Sultan of Egypt and Syria (r. 1174-1193) who shocked the western world by defeating an army of the Christian Crusader states at the Battle of Hattin and then capturing Jerusalem in 1187. Saladin all but destroyed the states of the Latin East in the Levant and successfully repelled the Third Crusade (1187-1192).
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