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{{Middle Ages}}

{{Middle Ages}}

[[Image:Crusader.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A returning [[Crusader]]]]

[[Image:Crusader.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A returning Crusader]]

'''The Crusades''' (1095-1291) were a series of European Christian campaigns into the Middle East, fought during the middle ages.  They were the military responses made by Christians from western Europe to the pope's pleas to re-capture the Holy Land from Islamic influence.  The '''First Crusade''' created new Latin states in the Holy Land. Subsequent crusades were less successful except when they attacked Byzantium.  Other medieval movements against heretics and infidels were also called crusades. The crusades ended with the Islamic recapture of all the Holy Land in 1291, when the the last city controlled by crusaders, Acre, fell.

'''The Crusades''' (1095-1291) were a series of European Christian campaigns into the Middle East, fought during the middle ages.  They were the military responses made by Christians from western Europe to the pope's pleas to re-capture the Holy Land from Islamic influence.  The '''First Crusade''' created new Latin states in the Holy Land. Subsequent crusades were less successful except when they attacked Byzantium.  Other medieval movements against heretics and infidels were also called crusades. The crusades ended with the Islamic recapture of all the Holy Land in 1291, when the the last city controlled by crusaders, Acre, fell.