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What is the origin of the name of Kondofrej, Bulgaria?
There is a small village in Western Bulgaria, not very far from the capital Sofia called Кондофрей roughly transliterated as Kondofrey. It is an otherwise completely unremarkable village except that ...
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Is (or was) there a version of the Maltese Cross with the right arrowhead missing? Does it have a name?
I'm trying to answer a question (link in Spanish) in the Spanish language site about a funny definition a user found in the Royal Spanish Academy's dictionary. It follows:
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What was the Hospitaller gonfalon like in the 12th and 13th centuries?
The Templar Order had a gonfalon (a military standard of a specific type) of black and white called the beauseant (I have come to prefer the spelling most common in the book I first took it from ...
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Any information about what William Marshall (Guillaume le Marechal) did in the Holy Land?
William Marshall, Knight, Earl, Justiciar and Regent was an extremely important person in British History. His history is well recorded except for one period of his life when he went to the Holy Land ...
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Anthropophagy perpetrated by crusaders?
King Tafur's men reportedly ate human flesh during the first crusade. The same was said of King Richard and his men during the second crusade:
King Richard shall warrant
There is no flesh so ...
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Where did the Crusaders go after 1291?
With most historians saying the Crusades stopped in 1291, and the disappearance of the Crusader states (Outremer), I'm left to wonder: what happened to the Europeans who had built a life there? Did ...
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How did Richard I sail through the strait of Gibraltar?
Here's something that puzzles me. At the start of the third crusade, Richard I sailed to the holy land around Europe, through the strait of Gibraltar and across the Mediterranean.
At the time, the ...
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What specific training did members of medieval military orders get?
What were the dominant martial and clerical themes to the training of knights in medieval military orders? Were there specific fighting or training techniques, or weapons, adopted to meet religious ...
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When did the Knights Templar dissolve and why?
The Knights Templar were a medieval chivalric organization within the Roman Catholic Church.
When did they dissolve, and what ultimately led to the dissolution of the Templars?
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