Things you didn't know about Germany #5
The Order of the Teutonic Knights fought perhaps the most successful of all the crusades along the shores of the eastern Baltic creating a ‘Knights kingdom’ and laying the ground work for the future Prussian state, founding over one hundred towns and over one thousand villages. This monumental achievement would endure for over seven hundred years, three hundred years longer than the so called ‘New World’ has been in existence. One British historian has noted that the Order’s