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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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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

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

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017011504

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