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Name: Northern Crusades
Type: Event
Start: 1145 AD
End: 1145 AD
Parent: Crusades
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Northern Crusades
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The Northern Crusades (or Baltic Crusades) were Christian colonization and Christianization campaigns undertaken by Catholic Christian military orders and kingdoms, primarily against the pagan Baltic, Finnic and West Slavic peoples around the southern and eastern shores of the Baltic Sea.
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1. Wendish Crusade
Was a military campaign in 1147, one of the Northern Crusades and a part of the Second Crusade, led primarily by the Holy Roman Empire and directed against the Polabian Slavs (or "Wends") in present-day northeast Germany and Poland.
