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The Battle of Lihula was one of the focal points of the military, religious, and political struggles that persisted in the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea during the first quarter of the 13th century. This conflict was not merely a clash between the Kingdom of Sweden and local Estonian tribes but is also regarded as part of the broader Crusades waged by the Latin Christian world against peoples deemed pagan. The battle, which took place in 1220, caused the settlement of Lihula to rapidly become