It is said that the knightly orders appeared in Spain even earlier than in Palestine. Is this true and why?
October 31, 2020 | Education
| This is true: the long-term confrontation between the warriors of the Cross and Islam on the peninsula led to the formation of the military classes of “knights” – hidalgo and faris. Something similar appeared on the eastern border of Byzantium, where Christian border guards were called Akrites.
