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The 1190s: 1190–1199
1190–1199 · worldwide, all places
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Richard the Lionheart spent most of his reign outside England fighting Saladin in the Holy Land, leaving his brother John to scheme at home, the exact setup the Robin Hood legends grew around. In Sweden, a young aristocrat named Arn returned from years as a Templar, and Persian poets wrote in Isfahan.
The Third Crusade's siege of Acre in 1191 was the decade's set piece in the east. The first Assassin's Creed game puts the player in Acre, Damascus and Jerusalem in 1191, and The Kingdom at the End of the Road brings Arn home to Sweden in 1192. Open the 1190s on the StoryTerra map and explore its stories by place.
9 famous stories set in the 1190s
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Browse 8 books and 2 games set in the 1190s (1190–1199).
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Robin Hood is champion of the poor and oppressed against the cruel power of Prince John and the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham. He takes refuge with his Merrie Men in the vast Sherwood Forest, emerging time and again to…
Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed is a non-linear action-adventure video game, during which the player controls a 12th-century Levantine Assassin named Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad during the Third Crusade, whose life is experienced through the…
Orphan of Destiny
Tristan and his companions-the fiery archer Robard Hode and the assassin maid Maryam-have escaped to England. But tragedy has occurred to Tristan's beloved abbey while they were on the Third Crusade, and Robard's home…
The Kingdom at the End of the Road
Leta gospodnjeg 1192. godine Arn Magnuson se nakon dvadeset godina provedenih u službi vitezova templara vraća u Zapadni Jetaland. Sa sobom će kući doneti nova znanja i naseljenike, što će predstavljati preduslov za…
The Queen's Man
Epiphany, 1193. Eleanor of Aquitaine sits upon England's throne. Her beloved son Richard Lionheart is missing, presumed dead - and the court whispers that her younger son, John, is plotting to seize the crown.…
The Seeing Stone
The year is 1199, the place the Welsh Marches. Young Arthur de Caldicot practises his tilting and archery, learns to be a dutiful page to his father, and waits impatiently to grow up and become a knight. One day his…
Keeper of the Grail
1191 A.D. The orphan Tristan has joined the Knights Templar as a squire, journeying with Richard the Lionheart on his crusade to free the Holy Land from the Saracens. As defeat looms near, Tristan is entrusted with the…
Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition
Assassin's Creed is a non-linear action-adventure video game, during which the player controls a 12th-century Levantine Assassin named Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad during the Third Crusade, whose life is experienced through the…
دیوان هاتف اصفهانی
سید احمد هاتف اصفهانی از جمله بزرگترین شاعران ایران در قرن دوازدهم هجری و از گویندگانی است که در احیا سبک شاعران قدیم پارسی گوی اثر بسیار داشته است. مولد وی اصفهان بود و به سال ۱۱۹۸ هجری در گذشت. هاتف در نظم و نثر و در…
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