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by webgrunt on September 5th, 2006

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In the past thousand years, how many times has a Muslim nation attacked a Christian nation? And what about Christian nations attacking a Muslim nations?

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  • by Godfather Part II on September 13th, 2006

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    Now, after some research I can list the major conflicts from 1000 CE. Due to the changing of borders accross the centries I am listing the conflicts, but not how many countries were involved as this is impossible to tell.

    Muslim attack Christian:

    1086- Muslims attempt to retake Southern Spain
    1453- Ottoman Empire expands into Christian territory.
    1500- Muslims take Constantinople
    1571- Demise of Ottoman Empire, victimise Christians
    1895- Turks enter Arminia, kill 300,000.
    TOTAL 5+

    Christian attack Muslim:

    1002- Christians expell Muslims from Spain
    1091- Normans take Sicily
    1095- 1st Crusade
    1144- 2nd Crusade
    ????- 3rd Crusade
    1204- End of 4th Crusade
    1208 Albigensian Crusade
    (1302- Pope declared "supreme leader" of world)
    1800-1900 Empirial Europe take lands accross middle east- Iraq, Iran, Afganistan etc all under Christian rule at some point.
    TOTAL 8+

    This timeline represents major conflicts. As my other answer stated skirmishes were frequent and it is impossilbe to tell exactly how many invasions occurred, or even what counts as an invasion.

    As we are all aware the Middle East has been invaded recently, on numerous occasions. However, many countries that have taken part in the conflicts would now consider themselves as secular/non-religious countries (like France, Germany, Uk etc) and so have not been included.

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    • Thank you very much, this is exactly what I was looking for!!

      webgrunt

      by webgrunt on September 21st, 2006

    • I would also include in this the extended predation of the Barbary pirates by which they extorted money from all other nations that sought to sail in the Mediterranean Sea.

      Glenn Blaylock

      by Glenn Blaylock on January 8th, 2007

    • Since when is it "attacking" to take back what was stolen from you? Did we "attack" Japan and Nazi Germany?

      Roger Kovaciny

      by Roger Kovaciny on February 12th, 2007

    • Roger Kovaciny, if you could explain which attacks you are refering to? Although if I may take a guess you are probably refering to the crusades. It is a great simplication to say that Muslims took the Middle East from the Christians, for example, if Islam and Christianity existed peacefully for a time and Christians started the violence, or forced the Muslims into conflict that changes things a lot, was the Middle East truely Christian or were they just occupying areas of tribal and Jewish law? Although there was brutality and eventual Islamification of the Middle East, it's open to interpretation exaclty who was to blame.

      Godfather Part II

      by Godfather Part II on February 13th, 2007

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