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Council of Clermont (1095)
On the Crusades map as “The Council of Clermont”
27 Nov 1095 — Pope Urban II asks Western knights to help Eastern Christians and free Jerusalem, offering remission of sins. The crowd answers, “God wills it.” Those present cannot yet imagine what the call has set in motion.
When 27 Nov 1095 Type Turning point Chapter Causes of the First Crusade (chapter 1 of Crusades)Atlas The Crusades, 1095–1291
TURNING POINT · THE CRUSADES, 1095–1291 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — historical political boundaries · Simon Barton — Crusading in Iberia, c. 1060–1212 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art — The Crusades (1095–1291) · Natural Earth — physical reference geography · OpenStax — The Crusading Movement
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Dated polygons selected; local transfers and shared frontier edges derived with documented historical event corrections. Simon Barton, The Cambridge History of the Crusades. Published summary consulted for dated conquests; no map copied Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, 2014. Facts consulted; no prose or image copied Natural Earth. Public domain OpenStax, World History Volume 1. CC BY 4.0 At some ports, source coastlines have offsets of several kilometers at their resolution. The original polygons are preserved, and the review record gives explicit coastal anchor tolerances.
reconstruction: 1028–1325 · reconstruction: 1040–1235 · reconstruction: 1056–1098 · reconstruction: 1066–1125 · reconstruction: 1066–1168 · reconstruction: 1066–1187 · reconstruction: 1072–1098 · reconstruction: 1072–1138 · reconstruction: 1085–1110 · reconstruction: 1085–1138 · reconstruction: 1094–1098 · reconstruction: 1094–1125 · reconstruction: 1094–1138 · reconstruction: 1095 · vector: 1010–1151 · vector: 1018–1176 · vector: 1018–1205 · vector: 1040–1098 · vector: 1040–1110 · vector: 1040–1125 · vector: 1040–1146 · vector: 1040–1191 · vector: 1056–1125 · vector: 1056–1138 · vector: 1056–1146 · vector: 1056–1191 · vector: 1066–1110 · vector: 1066–1125 · vector: 1066–1146 · vector: 1072–1235 · vector: 1072–1249 · vector: 1072–1325 · vector: 1085–1098 · vector: 1085–1110 · vector: 1085–1125 · vector: 1085–1138 · vector: 1085–1146 · vector: 1085–1151 · vector: 1085–1187 · vector: 1094–1098 · vector: 1094–1110 · vector: 1094–1125 · vector: 1094–1138 · vector: 1094–1146 · vector: 1094–1168 · vector: 1094–1235 · vector: 1095 · vector: 990–1146
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