• The 1202 Syria earthquake struck at about dawn on 20 May 1202 (598 AH) with an epicenter in southwestern Syria. The earthquake is estimated to have killed...
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    with the earlier 1202 Syria earthquake, are likely the strongest historical earthquakes in the region.: 529  Some of the earthquakes were also followed...
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    Mouty, Mikhail (June 2005). "The historical earthquakes of Syria: an analysis of large and moderate earthquakes from 1365 B.C. to 1900 A.D." (PDF). Annals...
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  • These 1759 events, along with the earlier 1202 Syria earthquake, are likely the strongest historical earthquakes in the region. The Dead Sea Transform is...
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    Chamaa Castle was - like many of Tyre's buildings - damaged in the 1202 Syria earthquake and whether it remained under the control of the Lordship of Tyre...
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  • Darawcheh, R.; Mouty, M. (2005). "The historical earthquakes of Syria: an analysis of large and moderate earthquakes from 1365 B.C. to 1900 A.D" (PDF). Annals...
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    location of several major earthquakes, such as the 1202 Syria earthquake and the Near East earthquakes of 1759. The 847 earthquake has also been linked to...
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    Mikhail Mouty (June 2005). "The historical earthquakes of Syria: an analysis of large and moderate earthquakes from 1365 B.C. to 1900 A.D." Annals of Geophysics...
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    Year 1202 (MCCII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. April–May – The bulk of the Crusader...
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    The 1170 Syria earthquake was one of the largest earthquakes to hit Syria. It occurred early in the morning of 29 June 1170. It formed part of a sequence...
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    Domini era). Theophanes reports that the earthquake affected Palestine by the Jordan River, and all of Syria. Churches and monasteries reportedly collapsed...
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    occurred in the same region, and by comparison both the 1202 Syria earthquake and the Near East earthquakes of 1759 had larger magnitudes than the 1837 event...
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    Tyre by members of the Order of Assassins. Ten years later, the 1202 Syria earthquake caused very severe damages in Tyre. Most of the towers and walls...
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  • Jacques, E.; Sursock, A. (2005), "Sources of the large A.D. 1202 and 1759 Near East earthquakes" (PDF), Geology, 33 (7): 529, Bibcode:2005Geo....33..529D...
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    rapid recovery Egypt made from an earthquake in 1200 (597) and the low flooding of the Nile between 1199 and 1202 (595–98). The resulting drought and...
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    Dead Sea Transform (category Earthquakes in the Levant)
    Fault. It has been the location of several major historical earthquakes, such as the 1202 Syria event. The estimated average slip rate along the Yammouneh...
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    Geoffroy de Donjon (category 1202 deaths)
    from him, undated, speaks of an earthquake in Syria. This event has been since identified as the 1202 Syrian earthquake happening in 20 May of that year...
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    Chastel Blanc (category Castles in Syria)
    year, and was rebuilt after the 1170 earthquake, then in 1188 after Saladin's invasion, and after the 1202 earthquake. The tower was eventually captured...
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  • include the 1114 Syrian earthquake, the 1138 Aleppo earthquake, the 1157 Hama earthquake, the 1170 Syrian earthquake, the 1202 Syrian earthquake, and the 1287...
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    Nimrod Castle (category Castles in Syria)
    masonry shows signs of a different type of seismic damage, dated to the 1202 earthquake and absent from the later, Ayyubid and Mamluk masonry. The fortress...
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    Hailing from a Kurdish family, he was the first sultan of both Egypt and Syria. An important figure of the Third Crusade, he spearheaded the Muslim military...
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    The Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) was a Latin Christian armed expedition called by Pope Innocent III. The stated intent of the expedition was to recapture...
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    Krak des Chevaliers (category World Heritage Sites in Syria)
    Hospitaller castle of Margat, which he also failed to capture. Another earthquake struck in 1202, and it may have been after this event that the castle was remodelled...
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    Transform, starting with the 1138 Aleppo earthquake and continuing with the 1157 Hama, 1170 and 1202 Syria events. The palace guards massacre the civil...
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  • brothers and nephews cause the disintegration of his empire. 1202 – Major earthquake. 1219 March – The Ayyubid sultan Al-Mu'azzam Isa orders the destruction...
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  • 1200s (decade) (section 1202)
    Islands. May 20 – An earthquake shakes the Levant from Egypt to northern Iraq, causing severe damage in Palestine, Lebanon and western Syria, including the...
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    Banias (category Hellenistic sites in Syria)
    al-Din, and reaffirmed Jaharkas as the holder of the iqta' in 1202. A strong earthquake the same year had its epicenter close to Banias, and the city...
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    areas. The city endured natural disasters, such as the devastating earthquakes of 1202 and 1927, as well as military incursions, which significantly damaged...
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    several earthquakes, foreign incursions, and after the Mamluks turned Safed into the capital of Galilee. The city was greatly damaged by an earthquake in 1837...
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  • pp. 338–339, The Capture of Ascalon. Runciman 1952, pp. 342–343, Earthquakes in Syria. Slack 2013, pp. 56–58, Castles. Nicolle 2005, Crusader Castles in...
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