11th Century Gallery

Seljuk Turks defeated at Dorylaeum, First Crusade

Crusaders under Godfrey of Bouillon, defeating Muslim forces of Sultan Kilij Arslan at Dorylaeum in Asia Minor, 1097.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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PROY2D-00030

Matilda of Flanders, Queen of England as wife of William the Conqueror - statue in the garden of the Palais de Luxembourg, Paris.
Digital photograph

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EXPL2A-00306

Discovery of grapes by Leif Eriksson's expedition, 1001 AD, leading to naming the new land Vinland.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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