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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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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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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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