For how long after the First Crusade did Europeans hold Jerusalem?

Europeans retained control of Jerusalem from 1099, the year of the capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, until 1187. In that year, Jerusalem was recaptured by the forces of Saladin.

What does it mean that there is iron curtain across the continent?

Why did western Europeans go on crusades?

How to receive from the Polish state what the Russian Tsar stole?
Nowadays the media keeps returning to the restitution of property nationalized after the war. However, these are not only problems of our Third Republic. In the Second Polish Republic, many proceedings of this type were also submitted to court lists. Only that Poland was sued for decisions made year
Louis XVII, the Child of the Temple
Louis XVII (1785-1795), Dauphin of France, is the second son of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. After the execution of his father, he is declared king by the noble emigrants under the name of Louis XVII. Nevertheless, his reign is only theoretical. The child remains imprisoned in the Temple, where h
Battle of Guadalete (I)
The Battle of Guadalete (river), near present-day Jerez, took place in the year 711 and confronted the army of the Visigoth king Don Rodrigo and the Muslims (mostly Berbers) of North Africa led by Tarik, lieutenant of the governor Muza. In the year 710 the Visigothic king Witiza died, a confrontati
Dionysius of Syracuse:The Greek "artillery" crushes the Carthaginians
At the beginning of the 4th century BC. the Greeks of Sicily were fighting once more against their ancient rivals, the Carthaginians. Dionysius of Syracuse, this time wished to prepare the Greek forces as best as possible. But in addition to the classic weapons, the engineers of Dionysius invented a