Northern Crusades happened in 12##.

Most of the crusades were named for either the number of the crusade or the area to which armies were marching. Some examples include the First through Ninth Crusades, the Northern Crusades and the Albigensian Crusade.

They were called crusades.

There were a number of crusades to the Holy Land, but there were others, such as the Northern Crusades against pagans of the Baltic region, and the Albigensian Crusade against French heretics.

Israel, Egypt, the Late Byzantine Empire, Spain or Northern Africa

The period of the Crusades lasted about two hundred years from 1095 to 1291. The Crusades were military campaigns sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church primarily for control of the Holy Land in the Middle East. However, there were also crusades in pagan Northern Europe and Muslim-controlled area of modern-day Spain.