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Overview of fortified medieval residences in the Eastern Mediterranean
Krak des Chevaliers
was built during the 12th and 13th centuries by the
Knights Hospitaller
with later additions by Mamluks. It is a
World Heritage Site
.
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This is a list of
castles
in the Eastern
Mediterranean
and
Middle East
, founded or occupied during the
Crusades
. For crusader castles in
Poland
and the
Baltic states
, see
Ordensburg
.
Sidon's Sea Castle built by the
crusaders
as a fortress of the
holy land
in
Sidon
,
Lebanon
.
Crusader states
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Geographic location on today's map
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Crusader castles by modern states
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Cyprus
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Kyrenia Castle
Egypt
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Greece
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Israel
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The remains of
Belvoir Castle
Monfort castle
- Acre (Akko)
? fortified city
- Aqua Bella, now
Ein Hemed
? Crusader fortified farm; national park
- Arsuf
, also known as Arsur or Apollonia ? fortified city and citadel, stronghold of the
Lordship of Arsuf
;
national park
- Ashkelon
? fortified city
- Belinas ?
Banias
; fortified town
- Belmont
? ruins of Crusader castle in Kibbutz
Tzova
- Belveer
? Crusader castle of which no traces remain; national park
- Belvoir Castle
; Kochav HaYarden National Park
- Bet Shean
? castle ruins next to ancient town, stronghold of the
Lordship of Bethsan
. Second castle on the
tell
.
- Beth Gibelin at
Eleutheropolis
? castle ruins next to ancient town, stronghold of the
Lordship of Beth Gibelin
; national park
- Beit Itab
- Bethaatap, Arabic:
Bayt 'Itab
? fortified manor (
maison forte
)
- Blanchegarde at
Tell es-Safi
? castle, seat of a lordship at biblical tell
- Caco or Cacho Castle,
Qaqun
; rebuilt by Baybars; national park
- Caesarea (Maritima)
, stronghold of the
Lordship of Caesarea
? fortified port city; national park
- Cafarlet
(Hebrew: HaBonim, Arabic: Kafr Lam) ? ruins of
Umayyad
fort reused by the Crusaders
- Calansue
, Hospitaller castle
- Casal Imbert ? at
Achziv
(formerly
Az-Zeeb
until 1948) ? Crusader "new town" with tower; nothing discernible at present
- Casel des Plains ?
Azor
; ruins of Crusader tower; inside town
- Castellum Beleismum ? tower on biblical
Tel Dothan
- Castellum Beroart ? the
Minat al-Qal'a
Umayyad fort reused by the Crusaders; at
Ashdod
- Castellum Regis; castle, now inside village of
Mi'ilya
- Caymont at
Tel Yokneam
, seat of lordship
- Chastel Hernaut or Arnoul, Latin: Castellum Arnaldi ? castle at
Yalu
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- Chastel Neuf
or Castellum Novum outside
Margaliot
, castle, rebuilt in Ottoman time (Qal'at Hunin)
- Chastelet
, castle ruin by
Jacob's Ford
: see
Battle of Jacob's Ford
; also known as Vadum Iacob, le Chastelez, Ateret, Qasr al-'Atra
- Castellum Rogerii Langobardi ? castle at
Umm Khalid
/
Netaniya
[2]
- Chateau Pelerin
, also known as Atlit Castle and Castle Pilgrim; off-reach military base
- Citadel of Safed
, fortress from the Second Temple/Roman period, major administrative center.
- Destroit, Le
, near
Atlit
- Forbelet Castle at
Taibe, Galilee
; battle site near the Hospitaller castle
- Givat Titora
, castle ruins
- Ibelin
, near
Yavne
- Jaffa
, fortified port town
- Judin Castle at
Khirbat Jiddin
or
Yehiam
Fortress ? Crusader castle, rebuilt in the 18th century; national park
- Latrun
, castle ruins
- Kastel
, on a hilltop next to Mevasseret, by the main Jerusalem Tel Aviv road
- Merle - fortified enclosure, Arabic name: Burj al-Habis and Qal'at al-Tantura,
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at
Dor
/
Tantura
- Mirabel
, in Hebrew: Migdal Tsedek, stronghold of the
Lordship of Mirabel
- Montfort
; inside national park
- Qula
, Crusader tower and a vaulted structure
- Ramla
, stronghold of the
Lordship of Ramla
- Safed
, large castle on the tallest hill, rebuilt by Baybars
- Saforie, le or
Sepphoris
(Latin), Saffuriya (Arabic): tower; national park
- Tel Hanaton
? fortified farm
- Tiberias
? fortified Crusader city immediately north of abandoned city established in Roman times; on the shore of the
Sea of Galilee
- Toron des Chevaliers, at
Latrun
- Tour Rouge or Turris Rubea at
Burgata
? Arabic: Burj al-Ahmar, Hebrew: Hurvat Burgata
- Tower of David
? the citadel of Jerusalem
- Turris Salinarum at
Tel Taninim
? Crusader tower, the only remains of the castle
Jordan
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Montreal (Shaubak)
Kerak
Doubtful proposals
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Discarded proposals
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- Jarash
: the
Temple of Artemis
was reused as a castle by the Damascenes and destroyed by Baldwin II of Jerusalem, was therefore not used by the Crusaders.
Lebanon
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Crusader castle in the village of
Toron
,
Lebanon
Israel - Palestinian autonomy
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Syria
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The remains of
Margat
Discarded proposals
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Turkey
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The ruins of Bagras Castle, viewed from the southeast
The ruins of
Amouda
Castle
See also
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References
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Bibliography
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- Pringle, Denys (1997).
Secular Buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: An Archaeological Gazetteer
. Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
9780521460101
.