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emperor Basil II ("The Bulgar Slayer") with Saints George, Theodore, Demetrius, Mercurius, and Procopius (976-1025 CE)

coin of Alexius I, with St. Demetrius as a soldier, handing the labarum to the emperor (1981)

bronze coin of Antioch (1112-1119) with St. George and the dragon

Muslims fighting crusaders, 14th cent. manuscript illumination

Raymond of Toulouse, count of St. Gilles, by Merry-Joseph Blondel, 1842. Palace of Versailles

Tancred de Hauteville, by Merry-Joseph Blondel, 1840. Palace of Versailles

Caesarea Maritima, the ramparts

Godfrey of Bouillon, Bouillon, Belgium

St. George (as a crusader) by Paolo Ucello, 1458-1460 (Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André)

St. George (as a crusader) and the dragon by Bernat Martorell (1434/35)

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