Saracen
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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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