Belvoir (french: beautiful view, link=no; and counterpart of ''fairview'') may refer to:
France
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Belvoir, Doubs
Belvoir () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.
Geography
Belvoir lies southeast of Clerval on a prominent hill.
History
Belvoir is noted for the Belvoir Castle, in French, built by ...
, France, a commune
**Belvoir Castle ( in French; 12th-17th century) in the commune
Israel
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Belvoir Castle (Israel)
Belvoir Castle ( he, כוכב הירדן, Kochav HaYarden "Star of the Jordan"; ar, كوكب الهوا, Kawkab al-Hawa "Star of the Wind") is a Crusader castle in northern Israel, on a hill on the eastern edge of the Issachar Plateau, on the ...
, a Crusader (Hospitaller) castle in the Jordan Valley
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Battle of Belvoir Castle
In the 1182 campaign and Battle of Belvoir Castle, also called the Battle of Le Forbelet, a Crusader force led by King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem battled with an Ayyubid army from Egypt commanded by Saladin. The Crusaders successfully repelled Sa ...
, a military campaign involving that castle
*Belveer/Beauverium, a Crusader castle near Jerusalem: see
Al-Qastal, Jerusalem
Al-Qastal ("Kastel", ar, القسطل) was a Palestinian village located eight kilometers west of Jerusalem and named for a Crusader castle located on the hilltop. Used in 1948 during the Arab-Israeli War as a military base by the Army of the ...
United Kingdom
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Belvoir Park Golf Club
The Belvoir Park Golf Club is in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The course has eighteen holes with a par of 71.
History and attributes
The course was founded in 1927, designed by Harry Colt. Each round being just under 6,600 yards, Belvoir Park has p ...
, Belfast, Northern Ireland
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HMS ''Belvoir'', Royal Navy'' ships
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Vale of Belvoir
The Vale of Belvoir ( ) covers adjacent areas of Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, England. The name derives from the Norman-French for "beautiful view" and dates back to Norman times.
Extent and geology
The vale is a tract ...
, England
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Belvoir, Leicestershire, a village in England
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Belvoir Castle
Belvoir Castle ( ) is a faux historic castle and stately home in Leicestershire, England, situated west of the town of Grantham and northeast of Melton Mowbray. The Castle was first built immediately after the Norman Conquest of 1066 an ...
, Belvoir village
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Belvoir Priory
Belvoir Priory (pronounced ''Beaver'') was a Benedictine priory near to Belvoir Castle. Although once described as within Lincolnshire, it is currently located in Leicestershire, near the present Belvoir Lodge.
History
The priory was estab ...
, near the castle
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Belvoir Hunt
The following is a list of foxhound packs in the United Kingdom, which are recognised by the Masters of Foxhounds Association. Fox hunting is prohibited in Great Britain by the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002 and the Hunting Act ...
, a fox hunt in the Vale of Belvoir
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Belvoir High School, in the Vale of Belvoir
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Belvoir Rural District
Belvoir was a rural district in Leicestershire, England from 1894 to 1935.
It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from the part of the Grantham Rural Sanitary District that was in Leicestershire. It was a small district, named after t ...
(1894–1935)
United States
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Belvoir (Saffold Plantation)
Belvoir, also known as the Saffold Plantation, is a historic plantation house built by Reuben Saffold II near Pleasant Hill, Alabama, United States. The Greek Revival-style house features a Carolina-type, hexastyle portico with Doric columns. ...
, Alabama
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Belvoir, Kansas
Belvoir is a ghost town in Douglas County, Kansas
Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to ...
, a ghost town
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Belvoir (Crownsville, Maryland)
Belvoir is a historic house at Crownsville, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It is a two-story, T-shaped building, constructed of brick, stone, and wood. The home is a product of building evolution spanning the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. ...
, a historic home
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Belvoir Township, Pitt County, North Carolina
Belvoir Township is a township in Pitt County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 9,334 at the 2010 census. The township is a part of the Greenville Metropolitan Area located in North Carolina's Inner Banks region. It includes the ...
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Belvoir, North Carolina
Belvoir is a census-designated place within Belvoir Township, Pitt County, North Carolina
North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United S ...
, a community in the township
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Belvoir (RTA Rapid Transit station)
Belvoir is a station stop on the light rail Green Line of the RTA Rapid Transit in Shaker Heights, Ohio. It is located in the wide landscaped median of Shaker Boulevard (Ohio State Route 87) at the intersection of Belvoir Boulevard on the north ...
, Cleveland, Ohio
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Belvoir (plantation)
Belvoir was the plantation and estate of colonial Virginia's prominent William Fairfax family. Operated with the forced labor of enslaved people, it sat on the west bank of the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia, at the present site ...
, Virginia
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Fort Belvoir
Fort Belvoir is a United States Army installation and a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. It was developed on the site of the former Belvoir plantation, seat of the prominent Fairfax family for whom Fai ...
, on the plantation site
Other places
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Belvoir St Theatre
Belvoir is an Australian theatre company based at the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney, Australia, originally known as Company B. Since 2016 and its artistic director is Eamon Flack.
The theatre contains a 330-seat Upstairs Theatre and a 80-seat ...
, Sydney, Australia
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Belvoir (theatre company)
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Villa Belvoir
The Villa Belvoir respectively the Belvoirpark is a Cultural Heritage in Zürich- Enge that comprises the mansion built between 1828 and 1831, and one of the largest public parks and arboreta in the city of Zürich in Switzerland.
Location
Lydi ...
and Belvoirpark, Zürich, Switzerland
See also
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Beauvais (disambiguation)
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Beauvoir (disambiguation)
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