We exhort and command you, brethren, to strive with all your might to drive out the Turks from the confines of the Christians, and to aid the Christians, who are now subjected to their yoke.
— Pope Urban II Medieval

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Letter to the Flemings, c. December 1095

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1095

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Shocking

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https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/urban2-full.asp

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