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guerra santa combattuta tra il 1189 e il 1192

stato crociato in Medio Oriente (1099-1291)

Saladin’s decisive victory over the army of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which destroyed the kingdom’s main field force and opened the way for the reconquest of Jerusalem.

pandemia di peste del XIV secolo

Saladin’s siege of Jerusalem, ending with the city’s surrender on October 2, 1187, after the defeat of the crusader army at Hattin.

sultano di Egitto, Siria e Hijaz (1137–1193)

A prominent nobleman of the Kingdom of Jerusalem who commanded the defense of Jerusalem during Saladin’s siege in 1187.

re di Gerusalemme (r. 1174-1185)

King of Jerusalem from 1186 to 1192 and commander of the crusader army defeated at Hattin.

regina di Gerusalemme (r. 1186-1190)

The Latin Christian polity in the Levant where the film’s court politics, frontier warfare, and defense of Jerusalem unfold.

The principal setting of the film, represented as a medieval Christian kingdom confronted by the Black Death.

The battlefield near the Sea of Galilee where Saladin defeated the main army of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187.

The major political and religious center of Judea and the setting for much of the film’s story.

The Roman province containing Alexandria and the wider administrative and cultural setting of the story.

A major crusader castle and lordship in Transjordan, historically associated with the lordship of Oultremer and the tensions preceding the 1187 campaign.