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POPE URBAN 2
- Born 1035, France. Died 1099, Rome. Became Pope in 1088. Initiator of the Crusades. Called for a Crusade to reconquer the Christian Holy Lands in 1095 at the Council of Clermont in France.
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SALADIN
- Born 1137 or 1138 in Tikrit, Mesopotamia, (now Iraq).
- Died 1193, damascus
- Although born a Kurd he became the greatest of Arab leaders, uniting the lands of Egypt and Syria in the 12th century.
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RICHARD THE LIONHEART
- Born 1157 Oxford, England; died 1199, Aquitaine, France. Became Duke of Aquitaine and Poitiers, and King of England. A hero of romantic legend for his leadership of the Third Crusade, he arrived in the Holy Land in 1191 and achieved a series of quick victories over the forces of Saladin in the coastal cities of the eastern Mediterranean
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MEHMED 2 THE CONQUEROR
- Born 1432, Thrace died 1481 near constantinople
- During his second reign he captured Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire, and establishing the Ottoman state as a major power on the Mediterranean
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Suleiman I (the Magnificent)
- Born 1494 or 1495, died 1566 in Hungary.
- Ruling the Ottoman Empire as Sultan from 1520 to 1566, he expanded the empire to nearly its farthest reaches.
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CHARLES V
- Born 1500 Ghent; died 1558, Spain.
- Ruled as King of Spain, leader of the Habsburg Empire in the Netherlands and Austria, and Holy Roman Emperor, 1519 to 1556.
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