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[[Image:Near East 1135.svg|thumb|right|The Near East in 1135, with the Crusader states of Outremer marked with red crosses.]]

'''''Outremer''''' ({{lang-fr|outre-mer}}) for "overseas", was a general name given to the [[Crusader states]] established after the [[First Crusade]]: the [[County of Edessa]], the [[Principality of Antioch]], the [[County of Tripoli]] and especially the [[Kingdom of Jerusalem]]. The name was often equated to the [[Levant]] of Renaissance. The [[Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia]] had its origins before the Crusades, but was granted the status of a kingdom by Pope Innocent III, and later became fully westernized by the (French) [[House of Lusignan]].

The term was, in general, used to refer to any land "overseas"; for example, [[Louis IV of France]] was called "Louis d'Outremer" as he was raised in [[England]].

== Present-day use ==
The modern term ''outre-mer'', spelled with a hyphen and equally meaning "overseas", is notably used for the [[overseas departments and territories of France]] (In [[French language|French]]: ''Départements d'outre-mer – Territoires d'outre-mer'' or ''DOM – TOM'', collectively ''Pays et territoires d'outre-mer'' (PTOM)).

== Cultural impact ==
[[Image:Reconstruction of the temple of Jerusalem.jpg|thumb|left|Illustration from the [[Old French]] translation of [[William of Tyre|Guillaume de Tyr]]'s ''Histoire d'Outremer'']]

The author [[Chaz Brenchley]] set his series ''The Books of Outremer'' in an [[Parallel universe (fiction)|alternate universe]] version of this region.

A kingdom of French refugees bears the name of France-Outre-Mer in [[S. M. Stirling]]'s book ''[[The Peshawar Lancers]]''.

[[Judith Tarr]]'s [[Alamut_series|Alamut series of books]] are set in Outremer, mostly in the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the city of [[Acre,_Israel|Acre]].

[[Robert E. Howard]]'s stories of [[Cormac Fitzgeoffrey]] take place in Outremer and environs.

== Literature ==
* [[David Nicolle]]: ''Knight of Outremer 1187-1344 AD'', Warrior No. 18. Osprey Publishing, Oxford 2003. ISBN 1-85532-555-1.
* [[Robert E. Howard]]: ''Hawks of Outremer'', Donald M. Grant, Publisher, West Kingston, Rhode Island 1979.

== See also ==
* [[Holy Land]]
* [[Timeline of the name "Palestine"]]

== References ==
* {{Cite book|author=Helen Nicholson|date=2004|publisher=[[Osprey Publishing ltd.]]|isbn=1-84176-670-4|title=''Knight Templar (1120-1312)''}}

== External links ==
* [http://legacy.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/medieval_studies/french_of_outremer/index.asp The French of Outremer]

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