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Margat

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Margat, also known as Marqab (lit), is a castle near Baniyas, Syria, which was a Crusader fortress and one of the major strongholds of the Knights Hospitaller. [1]

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  1. 69 relations: Abulfeda, Al-Bayda, Tartus Governorate, Al-Qadmus, Alawites, American Center of Research, Ayyubid dynasty, Baniyas, Baniyas District, Basalt, Basatin al-Assad, Battle of Harran, Beirut, Bent entrance, Burji Mamluks, Byzantine Empire, Castle, Central Bureau of Statistics (Syria), Concentric castle, County of Tripoli, Crusades, Cyprus, Damascus, Districts of Syria, Eastern European Summer Time, Eastern European Time, First Crusade, Governorates of Syria, Greek Catholic Church, Greek Orthodox Church, Hama, Ibn Battuta, Ilkhanate, Iraq Petroleum Company, Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus, Kaymakam, Kaza, Keep, Khawabi, Knights Hospitaller, Krak des Chevaliers, Latakia, List of Crusader castles, List of sovereign states, Mamluk Sultanate, Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon, Maronites, Mediterranean Sea, Must, Nahiyah, Ottoman Syria, ... Expand index (19 more) »

  2. Archaeological sites in Tartus Governorate
  3. Baniyas
  4. Buildings and structures in Tartus Governorate
  5. Castles and fortifications of the Knights Hospitaller
  6. Castles in Syria
  7. Mamluk castles

Abulfeda

Ismāʿīl bin ʿAlī bin Maḥmūd bin Muḥammad bin ʿUmar bin Shāhanshāh bin Ayyūb bin Shādī bin Marwān (إسماعيل بن علي بن محمود بن محمد بن عمر بن شاهنشاه بن أيوب بن شادي بن مروان), better known as Abū al-Fidāʾ or Abulfeda (أبو الفداء; November 127327 October 1331), was a Mamluk-era Kurdish geographer, historian, Ayyubid prince and local governor of Hama.

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Al-Bayda, Tartus Governorate

Al-Bayda (al-Bayḍāʾ, also spelled al-Beida) is a village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Tartus Governorate, located north of Tartus.

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Al-Qadmus

Al-Qadmus (القدموس, also spelled al-Qadmous or Cadmus) is a town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Tartus Governorate, located northeast of Tartus and southeast of Baniyas.

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Alawites

The Alawites, also known as Nusayrites, are an Arab ethnoreligious group that live primarily in the Levant and follow Alawism, a religious sect that splintered from early Shi'ism as a ghulat branch during the ninth century.

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American Center of Research

The American Center of Research (ACOR) is a private, not-for-profit scholarly and educational organization.

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Ayyubid dynasty

The Ayyubid dynasty (الأيوبيون; Eyûbiyan), also known as the Ayyubid Sultanate, was the founding dynasty of the medieval Sultanate of Egypt established by Saladin in 1171, following his abolition of the Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt.

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Baniyas

Baniyas (بَانِيَاس) is a Mediterranean coastal city in Tartous Governorate, northwestern Syria, located south of Latakia and north of Tartous.

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Baniyas District

Baniyas District (manṭiqat Bāniyās) is a district of the Tartus Governorate in northwestern Syria.

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Basalt

Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.

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Basatin al-Assad

Basatin al-Assad is a village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Tartus Governorate, located north of Tartus.

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Battle of Harran

The Battle of Harran took place on 7 May 1104 between the Crusader states of the Principality of Antioch and the County of Edessa, and the Seljuk Turks.

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Beirut

Beirut (help) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.

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Bent entrance

A bent or indirect entrance is a defensive feature in medieval fortification.

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Burji Mamluks

The Burji Mamluks (translit) or Circassian Mamluks (translit), sometimes referred to as the Burji dynasty, were the rulers of the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt from 1382 until 1517.

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Castle

A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders.

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Central Bureau of Statistics (Syria)

The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) (المكتب المركزي للإحصاء) is the statistical agency responsible for the gathering of "information relating to economic, social and general activities and conditions" in the Syrian Arab Republic.

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Concentric castle

A concentric castle is a castle with two or more concentric curtain walls, such that the outer wall is lower than the inner and can be defended from it.

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County of Tripoli

The County of Tripoli (1102–1289) was one of the Crusader states.

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Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.

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Cyprus

Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

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Damascus

Damascus (Dimašq) is the capital and largest city of Syria, the oldest current capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth holiest city in Islam.

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Districts of Syria

The 14 governorates of Syria, or muhafazat (sing. muhafazah), are divided into 65 districts, or manatiq (sing. mintaqah), including the city of Damascus.

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Eastern European Summer Time

Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) is one of the names of the UTC+03:00 time zone, which is 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.

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Eastern European Time

Eastern European Time (EET) is one of the names of UTC+02:00 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.

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First Crusade

The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the Middle Ages.

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Governorates of Syria

Syria is a unitary state, but for administrative purposes, it is divided into fourteen governorates, also called provinces or counties in English (Arabic muḥāfaẓāt, singular muḥāfaẓah).

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Greek Catholic Church

Greek Catholic Church may refer to.

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Greek Orthodox Church

Greek Orthodox Church (Greek: Ἑλληνορθόδοξη Ἐκκλησία, Ellinorthódoxi Ekklisía) is a term that can refer to any one of three classes of Christian churches, each associated in some way with Greek Christianity, Levantine Arabic-speaking Christians or more broadly the rite used in the Eastern Roman Empire.

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Hama

Hama (حَمَاة,; lit; Ḥămāṯ) is a city on the banks of the Orontes River in west-central Syria.

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Ibn Battuta

Abū Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abd Allāh Al-Lawātī (24 February 13041368/1369), commonly known as Ibn Battuta, was a Maghrebi traveller, explorer and scholar.

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Ilkhanate

The Ilkhanate or Il-khanate, ruled by the Il-Khans or Ilkhanids (translit), and known to the Mongols as Hülegü Ulus, was a Mongol khanate founded in the southwestern territories of the Mongol Empire.

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Iraq Petroleum Company

The Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), formerly known as the Turkish Petroleum Company (TPC), is an oil company that had a virtual monopoly on all oil exploration and production in Iraq between 1925 and 1961.

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Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus

Isaac Doukas Komnenos (or Ducas Comnenus, c. 1155 – 1195/1196) was a claimant to the Byzantine Empire and the ruler of Cyprus from 1185 to 1191.

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Kaymakam

Kaymakam, also known by many other romanizations, was a title used by various officials of the Ottoman Empire, including acting grand viziers, governors of provincial sanjaks, and administrators of district kazas.

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Kaza

A kaza (قضا, "judgment" or "jurisdiction") was an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire.

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Keep

A keep is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility.

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Khawabi

Khawabi (الخوابي), also spelled Qala'at al-Khawabi (قلعة الخوابي) is a village and medieval citadel in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Tartus Governorate, located 20 kilometers northeast of Tartus and 12 kilometers east of al-Sawda. Margat and Khawabi are Archaeological sites in Tartus Governorate and castles in Syria.

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Knights Hospitaller

The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (Ordo Fratrum Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani), commonly known as the Knights Hospitaller, is a Catholic military order.

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Krak des Chevaliers

Krak des Chevaliers (Qalʿat al-Ḥiṣn,; Crac des Chevaliers or Crac de l'Ospital,; from karəḵā) is a medieval castle in Syria and one of the most important preserved medieval castles in the world. Margat and Krak des Chevaliers are castles and fortifications of the Knights Hospitaller, castles in Syria and Crusader castles.

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Latakia

Latakia (translit; Syrian pronunciation) is the principal port city of Syria and capital city of the Latakia Governorate located on the Mediterranean coast.

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List of Crusader castles

This is a list of castles in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, founded or occupied during the Crusades. Margat and list of Crusader castles are Crusader castles.

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List of sovereign states

The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Mamluk Sultanate

The Mamluk Sultanate (translit), also known as Mamluk Egypt or the Mamluk Empire, was a state that ruled Egypt, the Levant and the Hejaz from the mid-13th to early 16th centuries.

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Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon

The Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon (Mandat pour la Syrie et le Liban; al-intidāb al-faransīalā sūriyā wa-lubnān, also referred to as the Levant States; 1923−1946) was a League of Nations mandate founded in the aftermath of the First World War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire, concerning Syria and Lebanon.

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Maronites

Maronites (Al-Mawārinah; Marunoye) are a Syriac Christian ethnoreligious group native to the Eastern Mediterranean and Levant region of West Asia, whose members traditionally belong to the Maronite Church, with the largest concentration long residing near Mount Lebanon in modern Lebanon.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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Must

Must (from the Latin vinum mustum) is freshly crushed fruit juice (usually grape juice) that contains the skins, seeds, and stems of the fruit.

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Nahiyah

A nāḥiyah (نَاحِيَة, plural nawāḥī نَوَاحِي), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns.

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Ottoman Syria

Ottoman Syria (سوريا العثمانية) was a group of divisions of the Ottoman Empire within the region of Syria, usually defined as being east of the Mediterranean Sea, west of the Euphrates River, north of the Arabian Desert and south of the Taurus Mountains.

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Principality of Antioch

The Principality of Antioch (Principatus Antiochenus; Princeté de Antioch) was one of the Crusader states created during the First Crusade which included parts of modern-day Turkey and Syria.

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Qalawun

(قلاوون الصالحي, – November 10, 1290) was the seventh Turkic Bahri Mamluk Sultan of Egypt; he ruled from 1279 to 1290.

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Richard I of England

Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199), known as Richard Cœur de Lion (Norman French: Quor de Lion) or Richard the Lionheart because of his reputation as a great military leader and warrior, was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199.

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Saladin

Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (– 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty.

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Sapper

A sapper, also called a combat engineer, is a combatant or soldier who performs a variety of military engineering duties, such as breaching fortifications, demolitions, bridge-building, laying or clearing minefields, preparing field defenses, and road and airfield construction and repair.

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Second Battle of Homs

The Second Battle of Homs was fought in western Syria on 29 October 1281, between the armies of the Mamluk dynasty of Egypt and the Ilkhanate, a division of the Mongol Empire centered on Iran. The battle was part of Abaqa Khan's attempt at taking Syria from the Egyptians.

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Siege of Margat

The siege of Margat took place in 1285 and resulted in the Crusaders losing the castle of Margat to the Mamluk Sultanate.

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Spur castle

A spur castle is a type of medieval fortification that is sited on a spur of a hill or mountain for defensive purposes. Margat and spur castle are hill castles.

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Sumac

Sumac or sumach is any of about 35 species of flowering plants in the genus Rhus and related genera in the cashew family (Anacardiaceae).

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.

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Syria

Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.

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Talin, Syria

Talin (تالين, also spelled Taleen) is a town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Tartus Governorate, located between Baniyas (to the west) and al-Qadmus (to the east).

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Tancred, Prince of Galilee

Tancred (1075 – December 5 or December 12, 1112) was an Italo-Norman leader of the First Crusade who later became Prince of Galilee and regent of the Principality of Antioch.

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Tartus Governorate

Tartus Governorate, also transliterated as Tartous Governorate, (مُحافظة طرطوس / ALA-LC: Muḥāfaẓat Ṭarṭūs) is one of the 14 governorates of Syria.

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Third Crusade

The Third Crusade (1189–1192) was an attempt led by three European monarchs of Western Christianity (Philip II of France, Richard I of England and Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor) to reconquer the Holy Land following the capture of Jerusalem by the Ayyubid sultan Saladin in 1187.

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Tripoli, Lebanon

Tripoli (طَرَابُلُس) is the largest and most important city in northern Lebanon and the second-largest city in the country. Margat and Tripoli, Lebanon are castles and fortifications of the Knights Hospitaller.

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Vassal

A vassal or liege subject is a person regarded as having a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch, in the context of the feudal system in medieval Europe.

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Vavasour

A vavasour (also vavasor; Old French vavassor, vavassour; Modern French vavasseur; Late Latin vavassor) is a term in feudal law.

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2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes

On 6 February 2023, at 04:17 TRT (01:17 UTC), a 7.8 earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria.

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See also

Archaeological sites in Tartus Governorate

Baniyas

Buildings and structures in Tartus Governorate

Castles and fortifications of the Knights Hospitaller

Castles in Syria

Mamluk castles

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margat

Also known as Al-Marqab, Al-Marqab Castle, Bertrand of Margat, Marqab, Marqat, Qalaat al-Marqab.

, Principality of Antioch, Qalawun, Richard I of England, Saladin, Sapper, Second Battle of Homs, Siege of Margat, Spur castle, Sumac, Sunni Islam, Syria, Talin, Syria, Tancred, Prince of Galilee, Tartus Governorate, Third Crusade, Tripoli, Lebanon, Vassal, Vavasour, 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes.