During the Crusades a Knight Templar and a Muslim sultan became blood brothers as Tony McMahon discovers a strong, unlikely friendship
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Baibars, Baybars, blood brother, bond, crusades, egypt, Knight Templar, saracen, Sauvage, sultan, syria, Templar, templars, William of Tyre
The news that Karak castle in Jordan had been attacked by members of the so-called Islamic State is horrifying and shocking. Much worse that a Canadian tourist, Linda Vatcher, was killed in the skirmish along with members of the Jordanian…
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Aleppo, Christmas, ISIL, ISIS, jordan, karak, Kerak, knights templar, Krak des Chevaliers, Palmyra, syria, Templar, terrorist
The boundary between the medieval Muslim and Christian worlds was very fluid and certain individuals had no difficulty moving from one world to the other
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Category: Templar History
Tags: boundaries, boundary, byzantine, Capella, catholic, chapel, Charlton, christian, christianity, constantine, Cordoba, Davides, El Cid, Evora, Geraldo, Heston, histfic, history, iraq, ISIS, Islam, jewish, knights, knights templar, Loren, medieval, Mozarab, muslim, norman, Ottoman, palatina, Palatine, Roger, seljuk, Sem Pavor, Sevilla, Seville, Sicily, Sisnando, Sophia, syria, Templar
ISIS or Daesh has perpetrated appalling crimes against both humanity and our historical legacy destroying priceless antiquities
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Assyrian, british, Daesh, destroy, history, iraq, ISIS, Islam, knights templar, medieval, museum, Palmyra, rebuild, sites, syria, Templar, terrorist
Ten things you never knew about the Knights Templar such as running a slave trade and inventing offshore banking
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Category: Templar History
Tags: al aqsa, Ark, conspiracy, covenant, crown, Grail, hattin, holy, horns, jewels, saladin, slavery, slaves, syria, Templar, theories, theory
Ajlun Castle – sometimes spelt Ajloun – was built by the nephew of Saladin to protect the route into Damascus from crusader invaders
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Ajloun, Ajlun, castle, history, Holy Land, jordan, Knight Templar, knights templar, middle ages, middle east, saladin, syria, Templar
Templar expert Tony McMahon on a visit to a medieval castle in Jordan found evidence that bombs were used in the medieval Crusades
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Category: Templar News
Tags: battle, bombs, crusade, crusades, egypt, incendiary, israel, jordan, lebanon, Levant, Medieval, saladin, syria, war
Gadara is a biblical city that was part of the Decapolis and where Jesus cured two people. It has black basalt Roman remains that are distinctive.
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Category: Templar History
Tags: basalt, black, cure, Decapolis, demoniacs, demons, egypt, Gadara, iraq, israel, jesus, jordan, lebanon, miracle, Saudi Arabia, syria
The Templar Knight blog has just visited the biblical city of Gadara – part of the Decapolis – and now known as Um Qais to see its Roman ruins
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Category: Templar History
Tags: amphitheatre, Ancient, Ancient Rome, basalt, byzantine, Byzantine Empire, Decapolis, Gadara, Galilee, jesus, jordan, Kingdom, middle east, roman, rome, Saudi Arabia, syria, Templar, Um Qais
A Turcopole was a lightly armed auxiliary recruited in the east by the Knights Templar to supplement their fighting ability in the Crusades
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Category: Templar History
Tags: christian, discovery, egypt, History Channel, Islam, islamophobia, jerusalem, jordan, Knight Templar, Knightfall, middle east, Pathros, Seljuq dynasty, syria, Templar, Turcopole, turk
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