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When did the Crusader presence in the Holy Land end?
Acre, the last major Crusader stronghold on the Levantine coast, fell to the Mamluk Sultanate on 18 May 1291 after a six-week siege. The remaining Crusader-held coastal forts surrendered or were evacuated over the following months. The two-century Crusader presence in the Holy Land was over. Jerusalem had been lost to Saladin a century earlier in 1187.
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The Crusades The Crusades were a series of religious wars sanctioned by the Catholic Church, primarily aimed at recovering the Holy Land from Muslim control, between 1095 and 1291. They reshaped the medieval Mediterranean and produced two centuries of Christian-Muslim military conflict.
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