English Wikipedia - The Free Encycl...
Download this dictionary
Northern Crusades
The
Northern Crusades
or
Baltic Crusades
were
crusades
undertaken by the
Christian
kings of
Denmark
,
Poland
and
Sweden
, the German
Livonian
and
Teutonic
military order
s, and their allies against the
pagan
peoples of Northern Europe around the southern and eastern shores of the
Baltic Sea
. Swedish and German
Catholic
campaigns against
Russian
Eastern Orthodox Christians
are also sometimes considered part of the Northern Crusades.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License