Krak des Chevaliers

Krak des Chevaliers

Also known as قلعة الحصن

Year

1142

Type

building

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Krak des Chevaliers is the concentric Crusader castle that rises on a basalt spur above the village of Al-Husn in western Syria, controlling the Homs Gap between the coast and the interior. The hill carried an eleventh-century Kurdish fort …

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