- Source: 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
=Castle of Saladin, Pharaoh's Island
= 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, Palestine and Golan Heights
=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
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
=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 31°30′7″N 35°46′36″E
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, 33°34′24″N 35°28′36″E
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
= Israel - Palestinian autonomy
=Castrum Sancti Helie (Castle of St. Elias) - castle ruins at Taybeh
Cisterna Rubea or Maldoim, Templar castle
= Syria
=Areimeh Castle, 34°44′40″N 36°02′33″E
Baniyas
Bourzey castle
Burj al-Sabi, near Adimeh, 35°09′14″N 35°55′39″E
Chastel Blanc
Chastel Rouge
Krak des Chevaliers
Maraclea
Margat, also known as Marqab
Masyaf Castle
Montferrand
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; however, a Crusader phase now seems again as proven, based on masonry and construction style of inner parts.
Qadmous
Rouad
Saladdin Castle, Crusader name: Saône
Sarmada
Qalaat al-Shaghur
Citadel of Tartus and Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa
Discarded proposals
Qasr Bardawil, wrongly identified for a while as the Castle of al-Al
= Turkey
=Anavarza Castle
Antioch
Amouda
Ayasuluk Castle, Selçuk
Bagras
Cursat, 36°5′46″N 36°11′59″E
Geben
Haruniye
Kızkalesi
Namrun Kalesi (Lampron)
Rumkale
Ravendel, 36°52′22″N 37°3′10″E
Servantikar
Silifke Castle
Tece
Tokmar Castle
T‛il Hamtun
Trapessac, 36°31′53″N 36°21′52″E
Dumlu Kalesi, 37°9′1″N 35°42′5″E
Yaka Castle
See also
List of castles
List of castles in Jordan
Ordensburg
References
Bibliography
Pringle, Denys (1997). Secular Buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: An Archaeological Gazetteer. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521460101.
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