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The Crusades were military expeditions organized between 1095 and 1291 by the European Christian powers, with the stated aim of combating Islamic rule in the so-called Holy Land, regaining Jerusalem, and other places where Jesus would have lived.
The Crusades were originally intended to recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim rule and were initially launched in response to a call from the Byzantine Empire for help against the expansion of the Seljuk Turks in Anatolia.
