List of Crusader castles

List of Crusader castles
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.
Crusader states
Geographic location on today's map
Kingdom of Cyprus: Island of Cyprus (north and south)
County of Edessa: south-east Turkey
Principality of Antioch: north-west Syria, southern Turkey
County of Tripoli: northern Lebanon, north-west Syria
Kingdom of Jerusalem
Lordship of Sidon: central Lebanon
Principality of Galilee: northern Israel, southern Lebanon, southwest Syria
County of Jaffa and Ascalon: southern Israel, eastern Egypt
Lordship of Oultrejordain: south-west Jordan
Crusader castles by modern states
Cyprus
Buffavento Castle
Othello Castle
Kantara Castle
Kolossi Castle
Kyrenia Castle
Larnaca Castle
Limassol Castle
Paphos Castle
St. Hilarion Castle
Egypt
Ile de Graye
Greece
The Grandmasters Palace of the Knights Hospitaller of St. John on Rhodes
Platamon Castle
Kastellorizo Castle
Halki Castle
Kos Castle
Amfissa Castle
Leros island castle
Corfu castles
Israel
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
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
Château Pèlerin, 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, 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
Ajloun Castle
Kerak Castle
Montreal
Tafilah
Vaux Moise (Wu'ayra in Arabic) near Petra
Doubtful proposals
Aqaba – doubtful, no traces found; castle on Ile de Graye might have been meant instead
Diban Castle
Hisban Crusader Castle
Discarded proposals
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
Arqa
Batroun
Beaufort Castle
Beirut Castle, demolished in the late 19th century
Belhacem,
Byblos Castle
Citadel of Raymond de Saint-Gilles
Doubiye Castle
Gibelacar
Coliath
Deir Kifa Castle
Hasbaya Castle
Moinetre
Mseilha Fort
Nephin
Saint Louis Castle – Sidon Land Castle
Scandelion Castle
Sidon Sea Castle, stronghold of the Lordship of Toron
Toron, stronghold of the Lordship of Toron
Palestine
Castrum Sancti Helie (Castle of St. Elias) - castle ruins at Taybeh
Cisterna Rubea or Maldoim, Templar castle
Syria
Areimeh Castle,
Baniyas
Bourzey castle
Burj al-Sabi, near Adimeh,
Chastel Blanc
Chastel Rouge
Krak des Chevaliers
Maraclea
Margat, also known as Marqab
Masyaf Castle
Montferrand
Qadmous
Rouad
Saladdin Castle, Crusader name: Saône
Sarmada
Shughr-Bakas
Citadel of Tartus and Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa
Discarded proposals
Nimrod Fortress, Arabic names Qal'at Nimrud and Qal'at as-Subayba; Ayyubid castle expanded by Baibars, built to protect the road to Damascus from Crusaders and Muslim rivals; wrongly believed to be a Crusader castle.
Qasr Bardawil, wrongly identified for a while as the Castle of al-Al
Turkey
Anavarza Castle
Antioch
Amouda
Ayasuluk Castle, Selçuk
Bagras
Cursat,
Geben
Haruniye
Kızkalesi
Namrun Kalesi (Lampron)
Rumkale
Ravendel,
Servantikar
Silifke Castle
Tece
Tokmar Castle
T‛il Hamtun
Trapessac,
Dumlu Kalesi,
Yaka Castle
See also
List of castles
List of castles in Jordan
Ordensburg
References
Bibliography
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