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How many crusades to the Holy Land are conventionally numbered?
Modern historiography conventionally numbers nine crusades to the Holy Land between 1095 and 1272, plus the Albigensian, Northern, Hussite, and Reconquista campaigns sometimes counted separately. The First Crusade (1095–1099) was the only one to substantially achieve its stated goal; the Fourth (1202–1204) sacked Constantinople instead; the Ninth (1271–1272) ended without reaching Jerusalem.
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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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