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Wikipedia: The Knights Hospitaller is a Christian organization that began as an Amalfitan hospital founded in Jerusalem in approximately 1080 to provide care for poor, sick or injured pilgrims to the Holy Land. After the Western Christian conquest of Jerusalem in 1099 during the First Crusade, it became a religious/military order under its own charter, and was charged with the care and defence of the Holy Land. Following the conquest of the Holy Land by Islamic forces, the Order operated from Rhodes, over which it was sovereign, and later from Malta where it administered a vassal state under the Spanish viceroy of Sicily.
![[The Knights' castle at Rhodes]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Castle_at_Rhodes_s.jpg "The Knights' castle at Rhodes")
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![[Picture from the Grand Magisters Palace of Knights of Rhodes (Museum)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/HospitallersP8220784_s.jpg "Picture from the Grand Magisters Palace of Knights of Rhodes (Museum)")
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![[Picture from the Grand Magisters Palace of Knights of Rhodes (Museum)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/HospitallersP8220789_s.jpg "Picture from the Grand Magisters Palace of Knights of Rhodes (Museum)")
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![[Picture from the Grand Magisters Palace of Knights of Rhodes (Museum)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/HospitallersP8220783_s.jpg "Picture from the Grand Magisters Palace of Knights of Rhodes (Museum)")
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![[Emperor Paul wearing the Crown of the Grand Master of the Order of Malta (1799).]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Knightpavel_s.jpg "Emperor Paul wearing the Crown of the Grand Master of the Order of Malta (1799).")
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![[A 1742 Tarì coin of the Knights Hospitaller, depicting the head of John the Baptist on a platter]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/20_grani_2C_Order_of_Malta_s.jpg "A 1742 Tarì coin of the Knights Hospitaller, depicting the head of John the Baptist on a platter")
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![[Grand Master and senior knights Hospitaller in the 14th century.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Knights_hospitaller_s.jpg "Grand Master and senior knights Hospitaller in the 14th century.")
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![[Picture from the Grand Magisters Palace of Knights of Rhodes (Museum)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/HospitallersP8220786_s.jpg "Picture from the Grand Magisters Palace of Knights of Rhodes (Museum)")
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![[Picture from the Grand Magisters Palace of Knights of Rhodes (Museum)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/HospitallersP8220785_s.jpg "Picture from the Grand Magisters Palace of Knights of Rhodes (Museum)")
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![[Knights Hospitaller 1350-1400]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/HospitallersP8220790_s.jpg "Knights Hospitaller 1350-1400")
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![[Grand culverin of the Knights Hospitallers, 1500]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Grand_culverin_of_the_Hospitallers_1500_1510_French_work_165mm_540cm_3343kg_iron_ball_15kg_Emery_Amboise_Abdul_Aziz_to_NIII_1862_alt_s.jpg "Grand culverin of the Knights Hospitallers, 1500")
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![[Knights Hospitaller 1450-1500]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/HospitallersP8220788_s.jpg "Knights Hospitaller 1450-1500")
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![[Picture from the Grand Magisters Palace of Knights of Rhodes (Museum)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/HospitallersP8220787_s.jpg "Picture from the Grand Magisters Palace of Knights of Rhodes (Museum)")
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![[Knights Hospitaller in 1200.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/HospitallersP8220791_s.jpg "Knights Hospitaller in 1200.")
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