The First Crusade was one of the most extraordinary, bloody and significant episodes in medieval history. It began with an ...

Pope Urban II, troubled by geopolitical difficulties--including the spread of Islam and a divided Christendom--launched the first crusade in ... Greece, Turkey and the Middle East.

Turkey rejects the term genocide, saying the death toll cited by historians is inflated and that people died on both sides as the Ottoman Empire collapsed amid World War I. When Francis first used ...

Kilij Arslan I's forces defeated the People's Crusade at the Battle of ... of Rūm who defeated some of the first Crusader armies to arrive in Turkey, and his daughter, in the Anatolian country ...

Asbridge, a British authority on the Crusades, brilliantly re-creates the three-year history of the First Crusade, chronicling its difficulties and victories, not downplaying its brutality but ...

In fact, the First Crusade was something of a shambling fiasco. A motley collection of knights and venturers from the countries of Western Europe made their way to Turkey, on the frontier between ...

In fact, the First Crusade was something of a shambling fiasco. A motley collection of knights and venturers from the countries of Western Europe made their way to Turkey, on the frontier between ...