The Crusader States (aka the Latin East or Outremer) were created after the First Crusade (1095-1102 CE) in order to keep hold of the territorial gains made by Christian armies in the Middle East. https://www.worldhistory.org/Crusader_States/ #History #CrusaderStates #Crusades #Edessa

The Siege of Acre in 1291 CE was the final fatal blow to Christian Crusader ambitions in the Holy Land. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1267/the-siege-of-acre-1291-ce/ #History #Acre #CrusaderStates #Crusades

The siege of Damascus in 1148 CE was the final act of the Second Crusade (1147-1149 CE). https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1260/the-siege-of-damascus-1148-ce/ #History #CrusaderStates #Crusades #Damascus

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

Join World History Encyclopedia as they chat with medievalist Katherine Pangonis, all about her new book Queens of Jerusalem, the Women Who Dared to Rule. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1969/interview-queens-of-jerusalem-the-women-who-dared/ #History #CrusaderStates #Crusades #EleanorofAquitaine

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

Between the 11th and 16th centuries, the idea of 'crusading' was dominant in Europe. #History #Crusades #CrusaderStates #Women #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/review/347/women-and-the-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

The Battle of Marj Ayyun (10 June 1179, also given as the Battle on the Litani) was a military engagement between Baldwin IV, King of Jerusalem (r. 1174-1185) and Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria (r. 1174-1193). Saladin decisively won the battle, enabling his victory at the Siege of Jacob's Ford in August 1179. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1566/battle-of-marj-ayyun/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Zapier&utm_campaign=whencyclopedia #history #Saladin #Crusades #CrusaderStates

The siege of Antioch in 1097-1098 CE occurred during the First Crusade (1095-1102 CE) when the western Crusader knights were on their way to retake Jerusalem. The great metropolis of Antioch in northern Syria was heavily fortified, and it would take eight months and a slice of treachery to finally break into the city. Even then the Crusaders had to defeat a huge Muslim relief army, and the diff...https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1252/the-siege-of-antioch-1097-98-ce/ #Antioch #CrusaderStates #Crusades

The siege of Damascus in 1148 CE was the final act of the Second Crusade (1147-1149 CE). Lasting a mere four days from 24 to 28 July, the siege by a combined western European army was not successful, and the Crusade petered out with its leaders returning home more bitter and angry with each other than the Muslim enemy. Additional crusades would follow, but the myth of invincibility of the weste...https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1260/the-siege-of-damascus-1148-ce/ #CrusaderStates #Crusades #Damascus

The Assassins (aka Nizari Ismailis), were a heretical group of Shiite Muslims who were powerful in Persia and Syria from the 11th century CE until their defeat at the hands of the Mongols in the mid-13th century CE. Secure in their fortified hilltop castles, they became infamous for their strategy of singling out opposition figures and murdering them, usually in knife-wielding teams. The group ...https://www.worldhistory.org/The_Assassins/ #CrusaderStates #Ilkhanate #MongkeKhan

Saladin Was A Land-Sea Warfare Innovator Of The Middle Ages, by Benjamin Duval

"Historian Benjamin Duval explores how the siege of Beirut shaped Saladin’s military strategy in the 12th-century."

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/saladin-beirut-and-land-sea-warfare-in-the-middle-ages

#Saladin #Beirut #ThirdCrusade #CrusaderStates