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The Waldensian Crusade in the Dauphine (1487–1491) Spanish Crusade in North Africa (1499–1510) Sixteenth century. Siege of Rhodes (1522) Crusade of the Emperor Charles V to Algiers (1541) (Algiers Expedition) Spanish Crusade to Mahdia (1550) Crusade of King Sebastian of Portugal to Morocco (1578) (Battle of Alcácer Quibir or the Battle of ...
Detail of the Cantiga #63 (13th century), which deals with a late 10th-century battle in San Esteban de Gormaz involving the troops of Count García and Almanzor. [1]The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for ' reconquest ') [a] or the reconquest of al-Andalus [b] was a series of military and cultural campaigns that European Christian kingdoms waged against the Muslim kingdoms following the ...
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land between 1095 and 1291 that had the objective of reconquering Jerusalem and its surrounding area from Muslim rule after the region had been conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate ...
Norwegian Crusade (1107–1110) Part of the Crusades (aftermath of First Crusade) and the Reconquista; Location: Iberia, Balearic Islands, Palestine. Kingdom of Jerusalem. Norwegian Realm Republic of Venice. Fatimid Caliphate. Almoravid Empire. Taifa of Badajoz. Taifa of Majorca. Barbary pirates of Majorca Crusader victory. Battle of Uclés ...
The Crusades: A Chronology, covering 1096–1444, in The Crusades—An Encyclopedia, edited by Alan V. Murray. [6] Important Dates and Events, 1049–1571, in History of the Crusades, Volume III, edited by Kenneth M. Setton (1975). [7] Historical Dictionary of the Crusades, by Corliss K. Slack. Chronology from 1009 to 1330. [8]
Toggle Third Crusade (1189–1192) subsection. 3.1 From Europe. 3.2 From the Crusader states. 4 Crusade of 1197. 5 Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) 6 Fifth Crusade (1217 ...
Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, [Note 1] OFM (1436 – 8 November 1517) was a Spanish cardinal, religious figure, and statesman.Starting from humble beginnings he rose to the heights of power, becoming a religious reformer, twice regent of Spain, Cardinal, Grand Inquisitor, promoter of the Crusades in North Africa, and founder of the Alcalá University.
The caliph al-Nasir (Miramamolín in the Spanish chronicles) led the Almohad army, made up of people from all over the Almohad Caliphate. Navas de Tolosa (also called Las Navas) is a town and hamlet in southern Spain, in the municipality of La Carolina , in the province of Jaén , in the eastern part of the Sierra Morena region, 15 kilometres ...