The Knights Templar named a town in England after the Iraqi city of Baghdad because they associated it with prosperity in the 12th century
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Baghdad, britain, called, commandery, england, essex, hertfordshire, history, knights, London, Name, preceptory, Templar, Temple, titled, town, UK, United Kingdom, village
Egypt was as much a target for Crusader and Knight Templar activity as other parts of the Middle East as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Baghdad, byzantine, Cairo, Caliphate, crusader, egypt, Fatimid, Fatimid Caliphate, Islam, jerusalem, shia, sunni
The Knights Templar were famous for fighting the Muslim Saracens but they also had to confront an enormous army of Mongols in the 13th century
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1258, Abbasid, asia, Ayyubid, Baghdad, Baybars, china, christian, east, Genghis, horde, hungary, Islam, khan, knights, Kublai, marco, mongol, polo, Templar, Turanshah
