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  IMAGE CREDITS

  All images and diagrams by Freddy Silva except the following:

  2.2. Livre des Passages d’Outre-Mer, circa 1490

  2.3. Roman du Chevalier du Cygne, circa 1270

  2.4. Thirteenth-century etching, public domain

  3.2. Byzantine mosaic, public domain

  4.2.., 5.2., 7.1., 12.2. Gustav Dore, Library of Congress, public domain

  6.3. Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, 1845

  7.2. Pedro Augusto Guglielmi, circa 1837

  8.3. From A Pictorial Journey Through The Holy Land, 1867

  11.1. Pamela Coleman Smith, 1909

  12.3. Guillaume de Tyr, in Histoire d’Outre-Mer, thirteenth century

  13.2. 1925 print, anon.

  14.2.Vera Effigies, sixteenth century

  14.3. Sixteenth-century print, anon.

  16.2. Public domain

  17.1. Henri Lehmann, circa 1850

  19.1. François-Marius Granet, 1840

  23.1., 36.1, 38.2. Torre do Tombo, public domain

  24.1. Biblioteca Nacional, public domain

  27.1., 27.2., 35.1., 35.2., 35.4., 54.2. Warren & Conder, Committee of the Palestine Exploration, 1884

  28.3. Jörg Breu the Elder, 1500

  30.1. Library of Congress, public domain

  32.2., 33.5. Liber Floridus, twelfth century

  33.3. Guillaume de Parisiensis, 1539

  35.3. From Jerusalem de l’Ancien Testament, 1860, by M. de Vogue

  40.2. Nineteenth century, anon.

  42.1. Bernardino Coelho, Ministry of Public Works, 1934

  45.1. Adapted from Charles Brooker, “Magnetism and Standing Stones,” New Scientist, January 13, 1983

  50.1. Bernard Gagnon, Wikipedia Commons, Atribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bete_Giyorgis_03.jpg (accessed April 20, 2017)

  51.1. Tomar archives, c. 1926

  54.4. Topographia Helvetiae, Rhaetiae et Valesiae, 1642

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  Copyright © 2012, 2017 by Freddy Silva

  Originally published in 2012 by Invisible Temple under the title First Templar Nation: How the Knights Templar Created Europe’s First Nation-State

  Revised edition published in 2017 by Destiny Books

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  Names: Silva, Freddy, 1961- author.

  Title: First Templar nation : how eleven knights created a new country and a refuge for the grail / Freddy Silva.

  Description: Revised edition. | Rochester, Vermont : Destiny Books, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2017011504 (print) | LCCN 2017037726 (e-book) |

  print ISBN: 9781620556542

  ebook ISBN: 9781620556559

  Subjects: LCSH: Templars—History. | Military religious orders—History.

  Classification: LCC CR4743 .S489 2017 (print) | LCC CR4743 (e-book) | DDC 255/.7913—dc23

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  INDEX

  All page numbers are refer to the print edition of this title.

  Abbey de Notre Dame du Mont Sion,

  40, 44, 47, 67, 73, 166, 252, 270,

  286–87

  Abydos, 251, 271

  Affonso I, 52

  Affonso VI, 53

  Aimery de la Roche, 176

  Aksum, 330, 345

  Albéric de Cîteaux, 89

  alchemy, 232, 234, 282–3

  Alcobaça, 62, 125–26, 160–64, 193,

  199, 228, 238

  Alexandria, 108, 170, 270, 283,

  333

  Alfonso VI, 28–30, 48, 114

  Almedina Gate, 273, 278

  Almosquer, forest of, 308

  Alvarez, Francisco, 342–44, 348

  Amalfi Hostelry, 54

  Amun, 244, 331, 347

  André de Montbard, 84, 89, 96, 104,

  110, 115, 124, 174, 181, 333

  ankh, 350

  Anta do Monge, 311

  anthropomorphic grave, 290

  Archambaud de Saint-Aignan, 124

  Ark of the Covenant, 188, 190, 193,

  242, 247, 281, 329, 334, 339,

  345, 348

  arkheia, 187

  armillary sphere, 268, 317, 331

  Arnaldo da Rocha, Pedro, 62, 92,

 

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