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    The Northern Crusades or Baltic Crusades were Christianization campaigns undertaken by Catholic Christian military orders and kingdoms, primarily against...
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  • 14th centuries. According to historical register, majority of early Baltic Crusaders in the 12th century were well-armed. During the 13th and 14th, mounted...
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    Archbishopric and the Order in 1224. Baltic tribes, c. 1200. Lands of Tālava Lands of Lotigola By 1208 the Crusaders were strong enough to begin operations...
    33 KB (3,313 words) - 10:57, 18 July 2024
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    sometimes ally with various Russian principalities against the Crusaders, since the eastern Baltic missions also constituted a threat to Russian interests and...
    26 KB (3,105 words) - 00:44, 12 July 2024
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    13th centuries, Catholic German traders and crusaders (see Ostsiedlung) began settling in the eastern Baltic territories. With the decline of Latin, German...
    53 KB (6,400 words) - 14:19, 28 July 2024
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    The Baltic states or the Baltic countries is a geopolitical term encompassing Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. All three countries are members of NATO...
    75 KB (6,840 words) - 14:27, 29 July 2024
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    and Middle East, founded or occupied during the Crusades. For crusader castles in Poland and the Baltic states, see Ordensburg. Kingdom of Cyprus: Island...
    12 KB (1,194 words) - 12:31, 21 July 2024
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    Old Prussians (redirect from Baltic Prussia)
    Prussians, Baltic Prussians or simply Prussians were a Baltic people that inhabited the region of Prussia, on the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea between...
    35 KB (3,966 words) - 15:55, 10 June 2024
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    Riga (category Port cities and towns of the Baltic Sea)
    largest city of Latvia, as well as one of the most populous cities in the Baltic States. Home to 605,273 inhabitants, the city accounts for a third of Latvia's...
    105 KB (9,447 words) - 12:34, 1 August 2024
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    Baltic Crusades. It was named in honour of King Ottokar II of Bohemia, who led a campaign against the pagan Old Prussians, a Baltic tribe. A Baltic port...
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    defeat of the crusaders proved to the Muslim world that the crusaders were not invincible, as they appeared to be during the First Crusade. Within months...
    133 KB (17,419 words) - 09:50, 3 August 2024
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    Danish Campaigns to Novgorod (category Crusades)
    city gates and surrendered the city to the Crusaders. It had become clear to Novgorod, that the Crusaders (besides trade) were also interrested in conquering...
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    When First Crusade's Siege of Jerusalem ended successfully for the crusaders, the patriarchate of Jerusalem was vacant, and the crusaders elevated a Latin...
    283 KB (34,006 words) - 17:01, 22 July 2024
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    Battle of Lyndanisse (category Battles of the Livonian Crusade)
    The Baltic Crusade (Northern Illinois University Press. 1994) ISBN 0-87580-052-1 Lindholm, David; Nicolle, David The Scandinavian Baltic Crusades 1100–1500...
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  • attacked the main crusader stronghold, with the crusaders taking revenge and invaded Semigallia. In 1236, Semigallians attacked crusaders retreating to Riga...
    146 KB (18,737 words) - 21:48, 19 June 2024
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    received papal authorization to launch a crusade, and in 1240, new campaigns began in the easternmost part of the Baltic region. The Finnish mission's eastward...
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  • Baltic campaign may refer to: The Baltic Crusades, also called the Northern Crusades, medieval Christian colonization and Christianization campaigns around...
    862 bytes (159 words) - 18:34, 20 August 2023
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    pope, Gediminas complained that crusaders destroyed Christian churches to have a pretext for war. The Baltic Crusade started in 1197. The first encounters...
    53 KB (6,388 words) - 08:15, 6 July 2024
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    The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the...
    114 KB (11,339 words) - 23:50, 28 July 2024
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    century was overshadowed by rivalry and hostility in the wake of the Baltic crusades. Until the thirteenth century, the Russians were conventionally seen...
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