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This is a list of castles in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and Middle East, founded or occupied during the Crusades. For crusader castles in Poland and the Baltic states, see Ordensburg.
*Buffavento Castle
*Othello Castle
*Kantara Castle
*Kolossi Castle
*Kyrenia Castle
*Larnaca Castle
*Limassol Castle
*Paphos Castle
*St. Hilarion Castle
Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes, The Grandmasters Palace of the Knights Hospitaller of St. John on Rhodes
* Platamon Castle
* Kastellorizo, Kastellorizo Castle
* Halki (Greece), Halki Castle
* Kos, Kos Castle
* Amfissa Castle
* Leros island castle
* Corfu castles
* Acre, Israel, 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 parks and nature reserves of Israel, national park
* Ashkelon – fortified city
* Belinas – Banias; fortified town
* Suba, Jerusalem, Belmont – ruins of Crusader castle in Kibbutz Tzova
* Castel National Park, Belveer – Crusader castle of which no traces remain; national park
* Belvoir Fortress (Israel), Belvoir Castle; Kochav HaYarden National Park
* Beit She'an, Bet Shean – castle ruins next to ancient town, stronghold of the Lordship of Bethsan. Second castle on the Tell (archaeology), tell.
* Beth Gibelin at Bayt Jibrin, Eleutheropolis – castle ruins next to ancient town, stronghold of the Lordship of Beth Gibelin; national park
* Bayt 'Itab, 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, Caesarea (Maritima), stronghold of the Lordship of Caesarea – fortified port city; national park
* Cafarlet (Hebrew: HaBonim, Arabic: Kafr Lam) – ruins of Umayyad Caliphate, Umayyad fort reused by the Crusaders
* Qalansawe, 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 Yalo, Yalu
* Hunin, 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.
* Le Destroit, Destroit, Le, near Atlit (modern town), Atlit
* Forbelet Castle at Taibe, Galilee; battle site near the Hospitaller castle
* Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Givat Titora, castle ruins
* Ibelin (castle), 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
* Al-Qastal,_Jerusalem, 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, Israel, Dor/Tantura
* Mirabel (castle), Mirabel, in Hebrew: Migdal Tsedek, stronghold of the Lordship of Mirabel
* Montfort Castle, Montfort; inside national park
* Qula, Crusader tower and a vaulted structure
* Ramla, stronghold of the Lordship of Ramla
* Safed, large castle on the tallest hill, rebuilt by Baybars
* 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
* Ajloun Castle
* Kerak Castle
* Montreal (Crusader castle), Montreal
* Tafilah
* Vaux Moise (Wu'ayra in Arabic) near Petra
* Arqa
* Batroun
* Beaufort Castle, Lebanon, Beaufort Castle
* Beirut Castle, demolished in the late 19th century
* Belhacem,
* Byblos Castle
* Citadel of Raymond de Saint-Gilles
* Chaqra - Doubay#Doubay or 'Qal'at ad-Dubba, Doubiye Castle
* Gibelacar
* Coliath
* Deir Kifa#Castle, Deir Kifa Castle
* Hasbaya#The Citadel, Hasbaya Castle
* Moinetre
* Mseilha Fort
* Enfeh, 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
* Areimeh Castle,
* Baniyas
* Bourzey castle
* Burj al-Sabi, near Adimeh,
* Chastel Blanc
* Chastel Rouge
* Krak des Chevaliers
* Maraclea
* Margat, also known as Marqab
* Masyaf Castle
* Montferrand (crusader 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 Nimrod Castle#Crusader period , Crusader phase now seems again as proven, based on masonry and construction style of inner parts.
* Al-Qadmus, Qadmous
* Arwad, Rouad
* Saladdin Castle, Crusader name: Saône
* Sarmada
* Shughr-Bakas
* Citadel of Tartus and Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa
*Anavarza Castle
*Antioch
*Amouda
*Ayasuluk Castle, Selçuk
*Bagras
*Koz Castle, Cursat,
*Geben, Kahramanmaraş, Geben
*Düziçi, Haruniye
*Corycus, Kızkalesi
*Namrun Kalesi (Lampron)
*Rumkale
*Ravendel,
*Servantikar
*Silifke Castle
*Tece Castle, Tece
*Tokmar Castle
*Toprakkale, Osmaniye, T‛il Hamtun
*Trapessac,
*Dumlu, Ceyhan, Dumlu Kalesi,Tumlu
/ref> *Yaka Castle
This is a list of castles in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, 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 (Northern Cyprus, north and Republic of Cyprus, 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 JordanCrusader 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
*Pharaoh's Island, Ile de GrayeGreece
*Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes, The Grandmasters Palace of the Knights Hospitaller of St. John on Rhodes
* Platamon Castle
* Kastellorizo, Kastellorizo Castle
* Halki (Greece), Halki Castle
* Kos, Kos Castle
* Amfissa Castle
* Leros island castle
* Corfu castles
Israel
* Acre, Israel, 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 parks and nature reserves of Israel, national park
* Ashkelon – fortified city
* Belinas – Banias; fortified town
* Suba, Jerusalem, Belmont – ruins of Crusader castle in Kibbutz Tzova
* Castel National Park, Belveer – Crusader castle of which no traces remain; national park
* Belvoir Fortress (Israel), Belvoir Castle; Kochav HaYarden National Park
* Beit She'an, Bet Shean – castle ruins next to ancient town, stronghold of the Lordship of Bethsan. Second castle on the Tell (archaeology), tell.
* Beth Gibelin at Bayt Jibrin, Eleutheropolis – castle ruins next to ancient town, stronghold of the Lordship of Beth Gibelin; national park
* Bayt 'Itab, 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, Caesarea (Maritima), stronghold of the Lordship of Caesarea – fortified port city; national park
* Cafarlet (Hebrew: HaBonim, Arabic: Kafr Lam) – ruins of Umayyad Caliphate, Umayyad fort reused by the Crusaders
* Qalansawe, 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 Yalo, Yalu
* Hunin, 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.
* Le Destroit, Destroit, Le, near Atlit (modern town), Atlit
* Forbelet Castle at Taibe, Galilee; battle site near the Hospitaller castle
* Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Givat Titora, castle ruins
* Ibelin (castle), 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
* Al-Qastal,_Jerusalem, 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, Israel, Dor/Tantura
* Mirabel (castle), Mirabel, in Hebrew: Migdal Tsedek, stronghold of the Lordship of Mirabel
* Montfort Castle, Montfort; inside national park
* Qula, Crusader tower and a vaulted structure
* Ramla, stronghold of the Lordship of Ramla
* Safed, large castle on the tallest hill, rebuilt by Baybars
* 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
* Ajloun Castle
* Kerak Castle
* Montreal (Crusader 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 * Heshbon, Hisban Crusader CastleDiscarded proposals
* Jerash, Jarash: the Temple of Artemis, Jerash, 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, Lebanon, Beaufort Castle
* Beirut Castle, demolished in the late 19th century
* Belhacem,
* Byblos Castle
* Citadel of Raymond de Saint-Gilles
* Chaqra - Doubay#Doubay or 'Qal'at ad-Dubba, Doubiye Castle
* Gibelacar
* Coliath
* Deir Kifa#Castle, Deir Kifa Castle
* Hasbaya#The Citadel, Hasbaya Castle
* Moinetre
* Mseilha Fort
* Enfeh, 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
Palestine
* Castrum Sancti Helie (Castle of Elijah, St. Elias) - castle ruins at Taybeh * Inn of the Good Samaritan#Crusader period, Cisterna Rubea or Maldoim, Templar castleSyria
* Areimeh Castle,
* Baniyas
* Bourzey castle
* Burj al-Sabi, near Adimeh,
* Chastel Blanc
* Chastel Rouge
* Krak des Chevaliers
* Maraclea
* Margat, also known as Marqab
* Masyaf Castle
* Montferrand (crusader 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 Nimrod Castle#Crusader period , Crusader phase now seems again as proven, based on masonry and construction style of inner parts.
* Al-Qadmus, Qadmous
* Arwad, Rouad
* Saladdin Castle, Crusader name: Saône
* Sarmada
* Shughr-Bakas
* Citadel of Tartus and Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa
Discarded proposals
* Qasr Bardawil, wrongly identified for a while as the Castle of al-AlTurkey
*Anavarza Castle
*Antioch
*Amouda
*Ayasuluk Castle, Selçuk
*Bagras
*Koz Castle, Cursat,
*Geben, Kahramanmaraş, Geben
*Düziçi, Haruniye
*Corycus, Kızkalesi
*Namrun Kalesi (Lampron)
*Rumkale
*Ravendel,
*Servantikar
*Silifke Castle
*Tece Castle, Tece
*Tokmar Castle
*Toprakkale, Osmaniye, T‛il Hamtun
*Trapessac,
*Dumlu, Ceyhan, Dumlu Kalesi,/ref> *Yaka Castle
See also
* List of castles * List of castles in Jordan * OrdensburgReferences
Bibliography
* {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Crusader Castles Crusader castles, Lists of castles in the Middle East, Crusader Lists of castles by type, Crusader