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Belvoir Castle (/ ˈ b iː v ər / ⓘ BEE-vər) [1] is a faux historic castle and stately home in Leicestershire, England, situated 6 mi (10 km) west of the town of Grantham and 10 mi (16 km) northeast of Melton Mowbray. A castle was first built on the site immediately after the Norman Conquest of 1066
Belvoir Castle, also called Coquet by the Crusaders, [1] also Kochav HaYarden (Hebrew: כוכב הירדן, lit. 'Star of the Jordan') and Kawkab al-Hawa ( Arabic : كوكب الهوا , lit. 'Star of the Wind'), is a Crusader castle in northern Israel , on a hill on the eastern edge of the Issachar Plateau , on the edge of Lower Galilee 20 ...
Bagworth Castle Bagworth: Belvoir Castle: Vale of Belvoir: Romanticised Gothic Revival Stately Home 19th century [3] No The site was originally the site of a Norman castle and was the site of a more traditional military castle until at least the English Civil War (1642–1651), at which time it was a stronghold of the King's supporters. The ...
A plate from Jones's Views (1819), showing Belvoir Castle's dominant position overlooking the Vale of Belvoir. The vale is a tract of low ground rising east-north-east, drained by the River Devon and its major tributary the Smite.
Kolossi Castle near Limassol in Cyprus, 1210–1570 with an interruption in 1306–1313. Limassol was the main seat of the Order between the fall of Acre in 1291 and the move to Rhodes in 1310; Gastria Castle in Cyprus, from 1308; Islands of the Dodecanese: Kastellorizo, 1306–1440; Rhodes, 1306–1522 (the city of Rhodes 1310–1522)
Belvoir (/ ˈ b iː v ər / ⓘ BEE-vər) is a village and civil parish in the Melton district of Leicestershire, England, close to the county boundary with Lincolnshire. The nearest town is Grantham , 13 kilometres (8 mi) east of the village.
The remains of Belvoir Castle Monfort castle. 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
Belvoir Mansion, an artist's conception of the building before its destruction. Belvoir was the plantation and estate of colonial Virginia's prominent William Fairfax family. Operated with the forced labor of enslaved people, [3] [4] it was located on the west bank of the Potomac River on the present site of Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County ...