1095 (The Year of) As Well As the Blip Number

I decided for number 1095 to forgo an insistence on quality and stick to history since a 3 year anniversary is historic in my life with Blip and the wonderful, kind folks I've gotten to know here.  I took these photos off the Wikipedia site with my I-phone, made a collage with Moldiv, and imported it for my anniversary photo.  The focus is on the history for me for number 1095 and the year 1095 in world history (which incidentally had few notable listings on Wikipedia).  The info about the photos follows:

The map of Portugal:  The County of Portugal (Portuguese: Condado de Portugal, Condado Portucalense, Condado de Portucale, in documents of the period the name used was Portugalia) refers to two successive medieval counties in the region around Braga and Porto, today corresponding to littoral northern Portugal, within which the identity of the Portuguese people formed. The first county existed from the mid-ninth to the mid-eleventh centuries as a vassalage of the Kingdom of Asturias and later the Kingdoms of Galicia and León, before being abolished as a result of rebellion. A larger entity under the same name was then reestablished in the late 11th century and lasted until the mid-12th century, when its count elevated it into an independent Portuguese kingdom.
Top Left Photo:  The Council of Clermont was a mixed synod of ecclesiastics and laymen of the Catholic Church, which was held from November 18 to November 28, 1095 at Clermont, France. Pope Urban II's speech on November 27 was the starting point of the First Crusade.
Bottom Photo:  Valence Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Apollinaire de Valence) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Valence, Drôme, France, dedicated to Saint Apollinaris of Valence.  It is the seat of the Bishop of Valence.  The cathedral, which has an interesting apse, was rebuilt in the 11th century in the Romanesque style of Auvergne and consecrated in 1095 by Pope Urban II. It suffered extensive damage in the French Wars of Religion, but it was restored in the first decade of the 17th century. The porch and the stone tower above it were rebuilt in 1861. The church contains the monument of Pope Pius VI, who died at Valence in 1799.
 

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