Portal:Crusades/Did you know
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- ...that the Crusade of Varna was a string of events in 1443–44 between the Kingdom of Hungary, the Serbian Despotate, and the Ottoman Empire that culminated in a devastating Hungarian loss at the Battle of Varna on 10 November 1444?
- ...that the Wendish Crusade was an 1147 campaign of crusaders against the Wends of what is now northern and eastern Germany that forced tribute from the pagan Slavs?
- ...that the Prussian Crusade was a series of 13th-century campaigns of crusaders, primarily led by the Teutonic Knights, to Christianize the pagan Old Prussians?