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Turning point · The Crusades, 1095–1291
Seville

1248 — Ferdinand III of Castile takes the greatest city of al-Andalus after a two-year siege. Only the mountain emirate of Granada survives, as a tributary, for another 244 years.
This is one scene of Chapter 9 — The Idea Turned Loose in The Crusades, 1095–1291.
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