Category:Crusades
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The Crusades were a series of religious wars sanctioned by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The most commonly known Crusades are the campaigns in the Eastern Mediterranean aimed at recovering the Holy Land from Muslim rule, but the term "Crusades" is also applied to other church-sanctioned campaigns. These were fought for a variety of reasons including the suppression of paganism and heresy, the resolution of conflict among rival Roman Catholic groups, or for political and territorial advantage.
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This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total.
Pages in category "Crusades"
The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
- Chronologies of the Crusades
- Chronology of the later Crusades through 1400
- Crusades
- Crusades after Acre, 1291–1399
- Crusades against Christians
- Crusades of the 15th century
- Crusading movement
- Fall of Outremer
- Historians and histories of the Crusades
- Historical sources of the Crusades: pilgrimages and exploration
- List of Crusades
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- Catholicism and Islam
- Christendom
- Christianization
- Christian–Islamic violence
- High Middle Ages
- Medieval history of the Middle East
- Military history of the Mediterranean
- Military history of the medieval Islamic world
- Religion-based wars
- Catholicism in the Middle Ages
- Wars of the Middle Ages
- Latin Church
- Military history of Christianity