northern crusade

The Northern Crusades (beginning 1193 and ongoing through the 16th century).

This period of warfare is called the Northern Crusades.

Systematic settlement started during the Northern Crusades of the 12th and 13th centuries.

Swedish kings established their rule in the Northern Crusades from the 12th century until 1249.

In the 13th century the area became a battleground in the Northern Crusades.

During the Northern Crusades, there was a common practice of building churches on the sites of sacred groves.

The Northern Crusades.

There are many sources that mention the Curonians in the 13th century, when they were involved in the Northern Crusades.

Known in written sources since the 6-7th centuries, the Žemaitukas became famous as an excellent war horse during the Northern Crusades.

There were also the Northern Crusades, against the remaining pagans in Northern Europe.

The results were edicts calling for Northern Crusades against the "marauding, heathen" Prussians.

In a campaign that was part of the wars known as the Northern Crusades, these knights defeated, subdued and converted the Livonians.

They abandoned the Curonian shore for good, but the Prussians continued to occupy the site until the Northern crusades of the 13th century.

During the Northern Crusades of the early 13th century, the Old Prussians used this thick forest as a line of defense.

With the rise of Christianity, centralized authority in Scandinavia and Germany eventually led to the Northern crusades.

Catholicism was introduced to Estonia by force via the Northern crusades and dominated religious life during the Middle Ages.

In the early medieval period, the region's peoples resisted Christianisation and became subject to attack in the Northern Crusades.

Like other Estonian tribes, Vironians remained predominantly pagan before Northern Crusades in 13th century.

Beer is a historic traditions in Latvia and is known to have been made before the Northern Crusades in the 13th century.

Christianity was brought to Estonia through the northern crusades, and brought about huge changes in the society, culture and architecture of Estonia.

From the time of the Northern Crusades in the early 13th century, most of land was owned by nobles descended from the German invaders.

They are noted for their long resistance (1219-1290) against the German crusaders and Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades.

In the beginning of the 13th century, however, Estonia was conquered by the Northern Crusades, and thus fell under the control of Western Christianity.

Other campaigns in Spain and Portugal (the Reconquista), and Northern Crusades continued into the 15th century.

In 1240 the Battle of the Neva was fought, where the Swedes, attempting to extend the northern crusades to the Russians, were defeated.