1 and without a radar. The Crusades were a series of religious wars sanctioned by the Latin Church, a subdivision of the Catholic Church, in the medieval period.
The most commonly known Crusades are the campaigns in the Eastern Mediterranean aimed at recovering the Holy Land from Muslim rule, but the term " Crusades" is also applied to other church- sanctioned campaigns. These were fought for a variety of reasons.
Saladin was born in Tikrit in modern- day Iraq.
His personal name was " Yusuf" ; " Salah ad- Din" is a laqab, an honorific epithet, meaning " Righteousness of the Faith. " His family was of mixed Kurdish and Turkish ancestry, and had originated from the city of Dvin in central Armenia.