c. 1138 – 4th March 1193 Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb, better known in the Western world as Saladin, was the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder …
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Crusades
1095 – 1291 In March 1095, Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos sent his ambassador to call for help with defending his empire against the Muslim Seljuk Turks. Pope Urban II, …
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