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Understanding the Crusades. Part 1, the context of the Crusades
CFN | 20 Aug. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu6Rc-eTMLA
Caution, at 8:22 he has just misrepresented the Baltic Crusades geographically:
where the Teutonic Knights made 8:11 war against the the pagans of the Baltic 8:14 region, especially around Lithuania, 8:16 attempting to Christianize this region 8:18 and created ultimately a u a Teutonic 8:21 order state up there.
If by "around" he means on both sides of, OK, but Lithuania actually defeated the Teutonic knights, for instance 1410 at Grunwald or Tannenberg (Lithuanian Žalgiris). However, on the one side of Lithuania, you have Prussia, a Teutonic order region, and on the other you have Livonia, Curonia and Estonia (modern Latvia and Estonia, with modern Estonia taking the North part of Livonia too), which were also territories of the Teutonic or up there Sword-Bearer order. I studied this at university in 2003./HGL
PS, he may have thought of Lithuania Minor, outside the Archduchy of Lithuania and a part of Prussia. The Teutonic order took that part from Lithuania properly speaking in 1275—76./HGL
PPS, see also:
Egypt’s government threatens world’s oldest monastery
Denison Forum | 20 Aug. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJwTPhjS7Ng
