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The Citadel of Tripoli (Arabic: قَلْعَة طَرَابُلُس ALA-LC: Qalʻat Ṭarābulus) is a 12th-century fortress in Tripoli, Lebanon.It was built at the top of a hill "during the initial Frankish siege of the city between 1102 and 1109" [1] on the orders of Raymond de Saint-Gilles, who baptized it the Castle of Mount Pilgrim [2] (French: château du Mont-Pèlerin; Latin: castellum ...
Byblos (/ ˈ b ɪ b l ɒ s / BIB-loss; Ancient Greek: Βύβλος), also known as Jebeil, Jbeil or Jubayl (Arabic: جُبَيْل, romanized: Jubayl, locally Jbeil [ʒ(ə)beːl]), is an ancient city in the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon.
On a natural ridge, which he named "Mons Peregrinus" (French: Mont Pèlerin, English: Mount Pilgrim), 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from Tripoli, Raymond IV (also known as Raymond de Saint-Gilles) began the construction of a large fortress, the Citadel of Tripoli (Arabic: قلعة طرابلس Qalʻat Ṭarābulus), formerly also known as the "Castle ...
The Council of Tripoli was an assembly of crusader states' leaders held in 1109, towards the end of the prolonged siege of the city of Tripoli. The crusader states— Jerusalem , Antioch , Edessa , and the nascent Tripoli —had been established on lands in the Levant conquered by western European aristocrats during and in the aftermath of the ...
Prague-based sales outlet Filmotor has secured international rights for Lebanese director Raed Rafei’s documentary “Tripoli / A Tale of Three Cities,” which has its world premiere in the ...
The name Tower of David was first used for the Herodian tower in the 5th century CE by the Byzantine Christians, who believed the site to be the palace of King David. [3] [1] They borrowed the name Tower of David from the Song of Songs, attributed to Solomon, King David's son, who wrote: "Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all ...
Byblos Castle. Byblos Castle (Arabic: قلعة جبيل) is a Crusader castle in Byblos, Lebanon.In Crusader times it was known as the Castle of Gibelet / ˈ dʒ ɪ b ə l ɪ t, ˈ dʒ ɪ b l ɪ t /, also spelled Giblet, which belonged to the Genoese Embriaco family, Lords of the city.
Citadel of Tartus layout as of 1871. Facade overlooking the sea. [6] The castle consisted of two very thick semi-circular enclosure walls separated by a ditch, the outer wall was separated from the sea by a ditch, as described by Wilbrand of Oldenburg in 1211. Access to the castle was through a single gate served by a path exposed to blows from ...