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  Wikipedia: 1247
Pope Innocent IV sends missionaries to attempt to convert the Mongols.
Egypt takes control of Jerusalem from the Kharezmians.
The Romanesque cathedral of St. Pierre is begun in Beauvais.
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/1/12/1247.html   (198 words)

  
 Continuous Jewish Presence in the Holy Land (with Maps)
It was in this period that the Hebrew grammarians at Tiberias evolved their Hebrew vowel-pointing system, giving form to the modem study of the language; and a large volume of piyutim and midrashim had their origin in Palestine in those days.
After the Crusaders, there came a period of wild disturbance as first the Kharezmians -- an Asian tribe appearing fleetingly on the stage of history -- and then the Mongol hordes, invaded Palestine.
Merely to recall the succession of conquerors who passed through the country and who oppressed or slaughtered Jews, deliberately or only incidentally to their struggle for power or survival, raises the question of how any Jews survived at all, let alone in coherent communities.
www.eretzyisroel.org /~samuel/presence.html   (5064 words)

  
 Foldvary: The Crusades and Religious Supremacists
Saladin of Damascus, a Kurd, took most of the Holy Land in 1187.
The Kharezmians, connected to the armies to Genghis Khan, invaded in 1244 and slaughtered the population of Jerusalem.
The sultans of Egypt defeated the Mongols in 1260 and the ruled over the Holy Land.
www.progress.org /fold217.htm   (832 words)

  
 Gaza - ChristWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Richard the Lionhearted held it for a brief time.
In 1244 the combined forces of Christians and Saracens were defeated by the Kharezmians.
The Turks finally took Gaza in 1516; and in 1799 Bonaparte held it for a few days.
christ.relately.com /wiki/Gaza   (2149 words)

  
 RePortersNoteBook.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
The Arabs did, however, play a significant and specific role in one aspect of Palestine's life: They contributed effectively to its devastation.
Where destruction and ruin were only partly achieved by warring imperial dynasties -- by Arab, Turkish, Persians, or Egyptians, by the Crusaders or by invading hordes of Mongols or Kharezmians -- it was supplemented by the revolts of local chieftains, by civil strife, by intertribal warfare within the population itself.
Always the process was completed by the raids of Arabs -- the Bedouins -- from the neighbouring deserts.
network54.com /Forum/145962/thread/1069127748/1069478211/...+Palestine   (1864 words)

  
 Britian and Israel, why is this ok? - nV News Forums
So many others have conquered, ruled, thrived and ultimately perished there that the list would take hundreds of pages.
A mere sample would include: Byzantines, Persians, Arabs, Turks, Circassians, Kurds, Abbassids (Iraqis), Egyptians, Kharezmians (Genghis Khan), Mamluks, Mongols, Latins (Crusaders), Ottomans, French and English.
It is not and never was Palestinian land.
www.nvnews.net /vbulletin/showthread.php?p=211154   (1214 words)

  
 Our Jerusalem.com -
The Arabs did, however, play a significant and spe- cific role in one aspect of Palestine’s life: They con- tributed effectively to its devastation.
Where destruction and ruin were only partly achieved by warring imperial dynasties-by Arab, Turkish, Persians, or Egyptians, by the Crusaders or by invading hordes of Mongols or Kharezmians-it was supplemented by the revolts of local chieftains, by civil strife, by intertribal warfare within the population itself.
Always the process was completed by the raids of Arabs-the Bedouins- from the neighboring deserts.
www.ourjerusalem.com /series/story/battleground035.html   (6034 words)

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