The Crusades and the Reconquista

Gathers the numbered medieval Crusades to the Holy Land, the Second through the Ninth, and the wars themselves treated together as The Crusades, the Northern Crusades waged against the pagan Baltic peoples, and the centuries-long Reconquista by which Christian kingdoms retook the Iberian Peninsula from Muslim rule. A member belongs here for being papally sanctioned or otherwise organized as a holy war of Latin Christendom against a non-Christian power, distinct from the later European wars fought between Christian confessions, which are grouped separately, and from the Islamic conquests these wars answered, which form their own heading.