List of Crusader castles

This is a list of castles in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, founded or occupied during the Crusades. For crusader castles in Poland and the Baltic states, see Ordensburg.

• Kingdom of Cyprus: Island of Cyprus (north and south)
• County of Edessa: south-east Turkey
• Principality of Antioch: north-west Syria, southern Turkey
• County of Tripoli: northern Lebanon, north-west Syria
• Kingdom of Jerusalem
  • Lordship of Sidon: central Lebanon
  • Principality of Galilee: northern Israel, southern Lebanon, southwest Syria
  • County of Jaffa and Ascalon: southern Israel, eastern Egypt
  • Lordship of Oultrejordain: south-west Jordan

• Buffavento Castle
• Othello Castle
• Kantara Castle
• Kolossi Castle
• Kyrenia Castle
• Larnaca Castle
• Limassol Castle
• Paphos Castle
• St. Hilarion Castle

• Castle of Saladin, Pharaoh's Island

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  The Grandmasters Palace of the Knights Hospitaller of St. John on Rhodes
• Platamon Castle
• Kastellorizo Castle
• Halki Castle
• Kos Castle
• Amfissa Castle
• Leros island castle
• Corfu castles

• 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
• Ashkelon – fortified city
• Belinas – Banias; fortified town
• Belmont – ruins of Crusader castle in Kibbutz Tzova
• Belveer – Crusader castle of which no traces remain; national park
• Belvoir Castle; Kochav HaYarden National Park
• Bet Shean – castle ruins next to ancient town, stronghold of the Lordship of Bethsan. Second castle on the tell.
• Beth Gibelin at Eleutheropolis – castle ruins next to ancient town, stronghold of the Lordship of Beth Gibelin; national park
• Beit Itab
• Bethaatap, Arabic: Bayt 'Itab – fortified manor (maison forte)
• Blanchegarde at Tell es-Safi – castle, seat of a lordship at biblical tell
• Caco or Cacho Castle, Qaqun; rebuilt by Baybars; national park
• Caesarea (Maritima), stronghold of the Lordship of Caesarea – fortified port city; national park
• Cafarlet (Hebrew: HaBonim, Arabic: Kafr Lam) – ruins of Umayyad fort reused by the Crusaders
• Calansue, Hospitaller castle
• Casal Imbert – at Achziv (formerly Az-Zeeb until 1948) – Crusader "new town" with tower; nothing discernible at present
• Casel des Plains – Azor; ruins of Crusader tower; inside town
• Castellum Beleismum – tower on biblical Tel Dothan
• Castellum Beroart – the Minat al-Qal'a Umayyad fort reused by the Crusaders; at Ashdod
• Castellum Regis; castle, now inside village of Mi'ilya
• Caymont at Tel Yokneam, seat of lordship
• Chastel Hernaut or Arnoul, Latin: Castellum Arnaldi – castle at Yalu^[2][3]
• Chastel Neuf or Castellum Novum outside Margaliot, castle, rebuilt in Ottoman time (Qal'at Hunin)
• Chastelet, castle ruin by Jacob's Ford: see Battle of Jacob's Ford; also known as Vadum Iacob, le Chastelez, Ateret, Qasr al-'Atra
• Castellum Rogerii Langobardi – castle at Umm Khalid/Netaniya^[2]
• Château Pèlerin, also known as Atlit Castle and Castle Pilgrim; off-reach military base
• Citadel of Safed, fortress from the Second Temple/Roman period, major administrative center.
• Destroit, Le, near Atlit
• Forbelet Castle at Taibe, Galilee; battle site near the Hospitaller castle
• Givat Titora, castle ruins
• Ibelin, near Yavne
• Jaffa, fortified port town
• Judin Castle at Khirbat Jiddin or Yehiam Fortress – Crusader castle, rebuilt in the 18th century; national park
• Latrun, castle ruins
• Kastel, on a hilltop next to Mevasseret, by the main Jerusalem Tel Aviv road
• Merle - fortified enclosure, Arabic name: Burj al-Habis and Qal'at al-Tantura,^[2] at Dor/Tantura
• Mirabel, in Hebrew: Migdal Tsedek, stronghold of the Lordship of Mirabel
• Montfort; inside national park
• Qula, Crusader tower and a vaulted structure
• Ramla, stronghold of the Lordship of Ramla
• Saforie, le or Sepphoris (Latin), Saffuriya (Arabic): tower; national park
• Tel Hanaton – fortified farm
• Tiberias – fortified Crusader city immediately north of abandoned city established in Roman times; on the shore of the Sea of Galilee
• Toron des Chevaliers, at Latrun
• Tour Rouge or Turris Rubea at Burgata – Arabic: Burj al-Ahmar, Hebrew: Hurvat Burgata
• Tower of David – the citadel of Jerusalem
• Turris Salinarum at Tel Taninim – Crusader tower, the only remains of the castle

• Kerak Castle^[4]
• Montreal
• Tafilah^[5]
• Vaux Moise (Wu'ayra in Arabic) near Petra^[6]

• Aqaba – doubtful, no traces found; castle on Ile de Graye might have been meant instead
• Diban Castle 31°30′7″N 35°46′36″E / 31.50194°N 35.77667°E / 31.50194; 35.77667^{[dubious – discuss]}
• Hisban Crusader Castle^{[dubious – discuss]}

• Jarash: the Temple of Artemis was reused as a castle by the Damascenes and destroyed by Baldwin II of Jerusalem, was therefore not used by the Crusaders.^[7]

• Arqa
• Batroun
• Beaufort Castle
• Beirut Castle, demolished in the late 19th century
• Belhacem,^[8] 33°34′24″N 35°28′36″E / 33.57333°N 35.47667°E / 33.57333; 35.47667
• Byblos Castle
• Citadel of Raymond de Saint-Gilles
• Doubiye Castle
• Gibelacar
• Coliath
• Deir Kifa Castle
• Hasbaya Castle
• Moinetre
• Mseilha Fort
• Nephin
• Saint Louis Castle – Sidon Land Castle
• Scandelion Castle
• Sidon Sea Castle, stronghold of the Lordship of Toron
• Toron, stronghold of the Lordship of Toron

• Castrum Sancti Helie (Castle of St. Elias) - castle ruins at Taybeh
• Cisterna Rubea or Maldoim, Templar castle

• Areimeh Castle,^[9] 34°44′40″N 36°02′33″E / 34.74444°N 36.04250°E / 34.74444; 36.04250
• Baniyas
• Bourzey castle
• Burj al-Sabi,^[10] near Adimeh, 35°09′14″N 35°55′39″E / 35.15389°N 35.92750°E / 35.15389; 35.92750
• Chastel Blanc
• Chastel Rouge
• Krak des Chevaliers
• Maraclea
• Margat, also known as Marqab
• Masyaf Castle
• Montferrand
• Nimrod Fortress, Arabic names Qal'at Nimrud and Qal'at as-Subayba; Ayyubid castle expanded by Baibars, built to protect the road to Damascus from Crusaders and Muslim rivals; however, a Crusader phase now seems again as proven, based on masonry and construction style of inner parts.
• Qadmous
• Rouad
• Saladdin Castle, Crusader name: Saône
• Sarmada
• Qalaat al-Shaghur
• Citadel of Tartus and Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa

• Qasr Bardawil, wrongly identified for a while as the Castle of al-Al

• Anavarza Castle
• Antioch
• Amouda
• Ayasuluk Castle, Selçuk
• Bagras
• Cursat,^[11] 36°5′46″N 36°11′59″E / 36.09611°N 36.19972°E / 36.09611; 36.19972
• Geben
• Haruniye
• Kızkalesi
• Namrun Kalesi (Lampron)
• Rumkale
• Ravendel,^[12] 36°52′22″N 37°3′10″E / 36.87278°N 37.05278°E / 36.87278; 37.05278
• Servantikar
• Silifke Castle
• Tece
• Tokmar Castle
• T‛il Hamtun
• Trapessac,^[13] 36°31′53″N 36°21′52″E / 36.53139°N 36.36444°E / 36.53139; 36.36444
• Dumlu Kalesi,^[14] 37°9′1″N 35°42′5″E / 37.15028°N 35.70139°E / 37.15028; 35.70139
• Yaka Castle

• List of castles
• List of castles in Jordan
• Ordensburg

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• Pringle, Denys (1997). Secular Buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: An Archaeological Gazetteer. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521460101.