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Crusaders and Saracens in battle at Nicea during the First Crusade, 1097. After Pope Urban II's call for the recovery of the Holy Land in 1095, Christian armies from western Europe came together in Constantinople to attack the Seljuk Turkish forces in Anatolia, and the Muslim armies in Syria and Palestine. The First Crusade culminated in the capture of Jerusalem in 1099.

Ancient Greek and Roman term for an Arab, used in the Middle Ages by Europeans for all Muslims. The equivalent term used in Spain was Moor.



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For hundred of year the Byzantine Empire stood as a barrier against the Saracen hosts of Asia.
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They were of Saracen origin, and consequently of Arabian descent; and their fine slender limbs, small fetlocks, thin manes, and easy springy motion, formed a marked contrast with the large-jointed heavy horsastic vows.
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The Saracens captured and pillaged Genoa nine hundred years ago, but during the following century Genoa and Pisa entered into an offensive and defensive alliance and besieged the Saracen colonies in Sardinia and the Balearic Isles with an obstinacy that maintained its pristine vigor and held to its purpose for forty long years.
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