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Northern Crusades

The Northern Crusades or Baltic Crusades were untertaken by Western Europeans against the "still heathen" people of North Eastern Europe around the Baltic Sea. They were inspired and prescribed by the pope and undertaken by papal knights and armed monks, between the 11th century and the 16th century, roughly.



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