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This is a list of castle
Castle

A castle is a defensive structure seen as one of the main symbols of the Middle Ages. The term has a history of scholarly debate surrounding its exact meaning, but it is usually regarded as being distinct from the general terms fort or fortress in that it describes a residence of a monarch or noble and commands a specific defensive territor...
s in the eastern Mediterranean
Mediterranean Sea

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Middle East

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, founded or occupied during the crusades
Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious war waged by much of Christian Europe against external and internal opponents. Crusades were fought mainly against Muslims, though campaigns were also directed against Paganism Slavic peoples, Jews, Eastern Orthodox Church, Mongols, Catharism, Hussites, Waldensians, Old Prussians, and political enemi...
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This is a list of castle
Castle

A castle is a defensive structure seen as one of the main symbols of the Middle Ages. The term has a history of scholarly debate surrounding its exact meaning, but it is usually regarded as being distinct from the general terms fort or fortress in that it describes a residence of a monarch or noble and commands a specific defensive territor...
s in the eastern Mediterranean
Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea or Ocean off the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia....
 and Middle East
Middle East

File:GreaterMiddleEast1.pngThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East....
, founded or occupied during the crusades
Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious war waged by much of Christian Europe against external and internal opponents. Crusades were fought mainly against Muslims, though campaigns were also directed against Paganism Slavic peoples, Jews, Eastern Orthodox Church, Mongols, Catharism, Hussites, Waldensians, Old Prussians, and political enemi...
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Cyprus

  • Kyrenia
    Kyrenia

    Kyrenia is a town on the northern coast of Cyprus, noted for its historic harbour and castle. Internationally recognized as part of the Republic of Cyprus, Kyrenia has been under Turkish control since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus....
     Castle
  • St. Hilarion Castle
    St. Hilarion Castle

    The Saint Hilarion Castle lies on the Kyrenia mountain range on the island of Cyprus. It was originally a monastery, named after a monk who allegedly chose the site for his Hermit....
  • Buffavento
    Buffavento

    Buffavento Castle is located in northern Cyprus. It means in Italian language ?Defier of the Winds?. The winds can reach quite high speeds in its exposed location at 950 metres above sea level....
     Castle
  • Kantara Castle
    Kantara Castle

    The Kantara Castle is the easternmost of the castles situated on the Kyrenia mountain range in Northern Cyprus. Laying at 630 metres above sea level it is well positioned to control the entrances to Karpass Peninsula and Mesaoria plain....
  • Larnaca
    Larnaca

    Larnaca, is a city of the Cyprus#Government situated on the southern coast of Cyprus. The island's largest airport, Larnaca International Airport is located on the outskirts of the city....
     Castle
  • Limassol
    Limassol

    Limassol or Lemesos is the second-largest city on Cyprus, with a population of 176,900 , the largest city in geographical size, and the biggest municipality on the island....
     Castle
  • Kolossi Castle
    Kolossi Castle

    Kolossi Castle is a stronghold a few kilometers outside the city of Limassol on the island of Cyprus. It held great strategic importance and contained production of sugar, one of Cyprus' main exports in the Middle Ages....
  • The Castle of Paphos
    Paphos

    Paphos Paphos is the mythical birthplace of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, and the founding myth is interwoven with the goddess at every level....
  • Famagusta
    Famagusta

    Famagusta is a city on the east coast of Cyprus and is capital of the Famagusta District. It is located in a bay between Capes Greco and Eloea, east of Nicosia District, and possesses the deepest harbour in the island....


Israel

  • Arsur
    Arsuf

    Arsuf also known as Arsur or Apollonia, was an ancient city and fortress located in Israel, about 15 kilometres north of modern Tel Aviv, on a cliff above the Mediterranean Sea....
    , also known as Arsuf or Apollonia
  • Belveer
    Mevaseret Zion

    Mevaseret Zion is a suburb of Jerusalem, Israel. Today, Mevaseret Zion is composed of two distinct settlements?Maoz Zion and Mevaseret Yerushalayim?under the jurisdiction of one local council....
  • Belvoir Castle
    Belvoir Fortress (Israel)

    The Crusader states fortress of Belvoir, located on a hill of the Naphtali plateau, 20 km. south of the Sea of Galilee and about 500 meters above the Jordan Valley, was originally a part of the feudal estate of a French nobleman named Velos who lived in Tiberias....
  • Beth Gibelin
    Ibelin

    Ibelin was a castle in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the 12th century , which gave its name to an important family of nobles....
  • Caesarea
  • Cafarlet
    Cafarlet

    Cafarlet is a Middle Ages Fortification that was located in the village of Kfar Lam. Today, it is located inside moshav HaBonim , Israel....
    , also known as HaBonim Fortress
  • Chateau Pelerin
    Chateau Pelerin

    Ch?teau P?lerin, also known as Atlit Castle and Castle Pilgrim, is located on the northern coast of Israel about 13 km south of Haifa ....
    , also known as Atlit Castle and Castle Pilgrim
  • Le Destroit
    Le Destroit

    Le Destroit is a Middle Ages Fortification, located near the town of Atlit, Israel.he:???? ?????...
  • Latrun
    Latrun

    Latrun is a strategic hilltop in the Ayalon Valley overlooking the road to Jerusalem. It is located 15 kilometers west of Jerusalem and 14 kilometers southeast of Ramla....
  • Mirabel
    Majdal Yaba

    Majdal Yaba was a Palestinian people village of over 1,500, located northeast of Ramla and east of Jaffa. A walled city stood at the same site as early as 3000 BCE, and Majdal Yaba is first mentioned by name in texts dating to the 19th century BCE....
    , also known as Rayyan Fortress, Migdal Afek or Migdal Tsedek
  • Montfort
    Montfort Castle

    The Montfort is a ruined Crusades fortress in the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel, about 22 miles northeast of the city of Haifa and 10 miles south of the border with Lebanon....
  • Nimrod Fortress
    Nimrod Fortress

    The Nimrod Fortress or Nimrod's Fortress, is an ancient Fortification situated in the northern Golan Heights, on a ridge rising about 800 m above sea level....
    , also known as Subeibe
  • Qaqun Fortress
    Qaqun

    Qaqun was a Palestinian Arab village located 6 kilometres northwest of the city of Tulkarem, at the only entrance to Mount Nablus from the coastal Sharon plain....
  • Tower of David
    Tower of David

    The Tower of David is an ancient citadel located near the Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem. Built to strengthen a strategically weak point in the Old City's defenses, the citadel was constructed during the second century BCE and subsequently destroyed and rebuilt by, in succession, the Christian, Muslim, Mamluk, and Ottoman...
  • La Sephorie
    Tzippori

    Tzippori , also known by the Greek Sepphoris, the Latin Dioceserea, and the Arabic Saffuriya or Suffurriye, is located in the central Galilee region, six kilometers north-northwest of Nazareth, in modern-day Israel....
  • Vadum Iacob
    Battle of Jacob's Ford

    Jerusalem has been and is considered by many to be one of the holiest cities in the world. For this reason, Christians and Muslims fought for control of the Holy City over several centuries....
    , also known as Ateret Fortress
  • Yehiam Fortress


Jordan

  • Krak des Moabites, see Al Karak
    Al Karak

    Karak is a city in Jordan that contains a famous Crusader castle. It is the capital city of Karak Governorate....
  • Montreal
    Montreal (Crusader castle)

    Montreal was a Crusader castle on the eastern side of the Arabah, perched on the side of a rocky, conical mountain, looking out over fruit trees below....


Lebanon

  • Beaufort Castle
    Beaufort Castle, Lebanon

    Beaufort or Belfort is a Crusader fortress in Nabatiye Governorate, Southern Lebanon Lebanon, about 1 kilometer to the south-south-west of the village of Arnoun....
  • Toron
    Toron

    Toron, now Tebnine or Tebnine in southern Lebanon, was a major Crusader castle, built in the Lebanon mountains on the road from Tyre to Damascus....


Syria

  • Chastel Blanc, see Safita
    Safita

    Safita is a city in northwestern Syria, located to the southeast of Tartous and to the northwest of Krak des Chevaliers. The city has a population of 33,000....
  • Krak des Chevaliers
    Krak des Chevaliers

    Krak des Chevaliers , transliterated Crac des Chevaliers, is a Crusader fortress in Syria and one of the most important preserved medieval military castles in the world....
  • Margat
    Margat

    Margat, also known as Marqab is a castle which was a Crusader fortress in what is now Syria, and one of the major strongholds of the Knights Hospitaller....
    , also known as Marqab
  • Saladdin Castle
    Saladdin Castle

    The Citadel of Salah Ed-Din is a castle in Syria. It is located c. 30 km east of Latakia, in high mountainous terrain, on a ridge between two deep ravines and surrounded by forest....
    , also known as Saone
  • Tartous
    Tartous

    Tartus is a city in Syria, the capital of Tartus Governorate. The city was known as Antaradus in Latin or Antartus and Tortosa by the Crusaders....


Turkey

  • Ayasuluk Castle, Selçuk
    Selçuk

    Sel?uk is the central town of Sel?uk district, Izmir Province in Turkey, northeast of Kusadasi, northeast of Ephesus. Its original name was John the Theologian , from which the Ottoman Turkish name Ayaslug is derived....
  • Bagras
    Bagras

    Bagras or Baghras is the name of a town and nearby castle in present-day Turkey, in the Amanus Mountains.The castle, properly known as Gastun provided a base for a force to cover the Syrian Gates, the passes between Iskenderun and Antioch....
  • Yilankale
    Yilankale

    Yilankale, Castle of the Snakes is a large medieval Armenian and List of Crusader castles, located east of Adana in modern Turkey, built on a rocky hill overlooking the east bank of the Ceyhan river....
    , or Castle of Snakes


See also

  • List of castles
    List of castles

    The List of castles is a link page for any castle in the sense of a fortified building....