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The Crusades combined different motives
Справжня монета хрестоносної Акри близько 1230 року; не реконструкція й не документ усіх мотивів походів / Actual Crusader Acre coin, circa 1230; not a reconstruction or evidence of every campaign’s motives. Credit: PHGCOM; CC BY-SA 3.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=9489977
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Holy Land crusades conventionally framed as 1095–1291 combined religious, political and military aims. They should not be reduced to a single expedition or an unchanging clash of two uniform camps. Fourth Crusade participants, for example, attacked Christian Constantinople. The wider crusading movement extended beyond this region and period.
