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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. [1] 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.
Castle of Idanha [1] Castle of Monsanto [1] Castle of Penha Garcia [1] Castle of Pombal [2] Castle of Soure - received and reconstructed in March 1128, was the first castle of the Knights Templar. [16] Old town of Tomar, including the Castle, the Convent of the Order of Christ and the Church of Santa Maria do Olival [1] [2]
Pages in category "Lists of castles in the Middle East" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
The house of philhellene Thomas Gordon, built in 1829 that served as an all-girls school, a dance school and was home to the 4th Greek artillery regiment. Today it accommodates the French Institute of Athens (Institut Français d' Athènes). [52] The house of Spyridon Trikoupis (built in 1900), where the politician was born and spent his childhood.
1910s Turkish Fortifications at Salah El Din Castle, South Sinai. [7] 1960s and 1970s Egyptian Defensive fortifications built by Egyptian Armed forces during the Attrition war on the Western bank of Suez Canal and Bar Lev Line of fortifications on Eastern side of Suez Canal (by Israel occupation forces). [7] 1990s Touristic Castle Zaman, Sinai [57]
Many northern European castles were originally built from earth and timber but had their defences replaced later by stone. Early castles often exploited natural defences, lacking features such as towers and arrowslits and relying on a central keep. In the late 12th and early 13th centuries, a scientific approach to castle defence emerged.
They rebuilt and transformed the fortress into one of the largest crusader citadels in the Middle East. Marseille Bishop Benoît d'Alignan, who wrote De constructione castri Saphet , a detailed report on the fortress and its siege in 1264, described a citadel sprawling over an area of about forty dunams, with a length of 252 meters and a width ...
View from the castle over the Alsatian plain up to the Black Forest. The Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg (French: [ʃɑto dy o kœniksbuʁ]; German: Hohkönigsburg), sometimes also Haut-Kœnigsbourg, is a medieval castle located in the commune of Orschwiller in the Bas-Rhin département of Alsace, France.