Jerusalem
Middle Ages

Cradle of the Christian movement, the control of which was the object of several Christian crusades.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Jerusalem

In the late middle ages the Arab control of Jerusalem preoccupied Christian imaginations. Christians longed to undertake pilgrimage there and eventually determined to capture the city for Christian control. This was one object, never permanently achieved, of the Crusades.



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