lupadracolis:hetalia-headcanons:Templars, Teutonics, Hospitaliers, what have you…I don&
lupadracolis: hetalia-headcanons: Templars, Teutonics, Hospitaliers, what have you… I don’t… understand why Spain is on here… Spain was a bit busy round about the time of the crusades, y’know, being occupied by the Berber Muslims… Honestly, we were just trying to find a picture with more knights than just Teutonic!Gilbert that was also amenable to text superimposition. You are correct; the present-day nation of Spain (then Al-Andalus, Moorish Iberia, what have you) was not a Christian area during the bulk of time known as the Crusades (1095-1291), as it was generally under Muslim governance since the Umayyad conquest of Hispania (711-ish) until the Reconquista (completed in 1492). However, the Reconquista (which lasted basically from the day Spain was conquered to the day the Christians managed to get it all) was closely tied to the well-known Crusades, and can be considered a “Crusade” in and of itself. This is similar to how the activities of the Teutonic Knights in modern-day Poland (then the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; see: Battle of Grunwald/Tannenberg, 1410) and Russia are also lumped under the umbrella term that is “Crusade”. Also, due to the fact that nations and national boundaries as we think of them today did not exist during the time period, as well as the prevalence of religion and language as identifiers, ‘Spanish’ knights could very well have ridden off to Crusades in the Holy Land. TL;DR: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades -- source link
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