page_title: Qalansawe
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Qalansawe / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Qalansuwa, Israel. A mosque built upon ruins of a crusader hall.
context_page_description: Qalansawe or Qalansuwa is a city in the Central District of Israel. Part of the Triangle, in 2018 it had a population of 22,788.
context_section_description: During the Abbasid Revolution in 750, which toppled the Umayyad Caliphate, numerous members of the Umayyad dynasty were deported to Qalansawe from Egypt for execution, including descendants of caliphs Umar II (r. 717–720) and Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik (r. 715–717). From the ninth century until the Crusader times, Qalansawe was a stop on the Cairo-Damascus road, between Lajjun and Ramla.
  During the Crusader period, the village was known as Calanson, Calansue, Calanzon or Kalensue. In 1128, it was given to the Hospitallers by the knight Godfrey of Flujeac. Yaqut (†1229) wrote that Qalansawe, Castle of the Plans, of the Crusaders, was a fortress near Ramle. He adds that "many of the Omayyads were slain there." Remnants of a crusader fortress remain today. It remained in Hospitallers hands (except for 1187–1191) until Baybars took it in 1265. However, during this period the lord of Caesarea appears to have retained overlordship.
  In 1265, after the Mamluks had defeated the Crusaders, Qalansawe was mentioned among the estates which Sultan Baibars granted his followers. It was divided equally between two of his  emirs: 'Izz al-Din Aidamur al-Halabi al-Salihi and Shams al-Din Sunqur al-Rumi al-Salihi.
caption: Mosque built on Crusader ruins
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