Chastel Rouge, the Glossary
Chastel Rouge, also called Qal’at Yahmur (قلعة يحمور, Castle of Yahmur) is a small Crusader stronghold in the North West of Syria that belonged to the County of Tripoli.[1]
Table of Contents
22 relations: Areimeh, Bezant, Chastel Blanc, County of Tripoli, Crusades, Franks, Greco-Roman world, Hugh N. Kennedy, Knights Hospitaller, Krak des Chevaliers, Phoenicia, Pons, Count of Tripoli, Qalawun, Raymond III, Count of Tripoli, Safita, Saladin, Syria, Tancred, Prince of Galilee, Tartus, Tartus Governorate, Tripoli, Lebanon, Yahmur.
- Archaeological sites in Tartus Governorate
- Buildings and structures in Tartus Governorate
- Castles and fortifications of the Knights Hospitaller
- Castles in Syria
Areimeh
Areimeh (العريمة) is a Syrian village located in Tartus District, Tartus.
Bezant
In the Middle Ages, the term bezant (besant, from Latin bizantius aureus) was used in Western Europe to describe several gold coins of the east, all derived ultimately from the nocat.
Chastel Blanc
Chastel Blanc (برج صافيتا, Burj Safita or Safita Tower) is a medieval structure in Safita, western Syria. Chastel Rouge and Chastel Blanc are Buildings and structures in Tartus Governorate and castles in Syria.
See Chastel Rouge and Chastel Blanc
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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Franks
Aristocratic Frankish burial items from the Merovingian dynasty The Franks (Franci or gens Francorum;; Francs.) were a western European people during the Roman Empire and Middle Ages.
Greco-Roman world
The Greco-Roman civilization (also Greco-Roman culture or Greco-Latin culture; spelled Graeco-Roman in the Commonwealth), as understood by modern scholars and writers, includes the geographical regions and countries that culturally—and so historically—were directly and intimately influenced by the language, culture, government and religion of the Greeks and Romans.
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Hugh N. Kennedy
Hugh Nigel Kennedy (born 22 October 1947) is a British medievalist and academic.
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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. Chastel Rouge and Krak des Chevaliers are castles and fortifications of the Knights Hospitaller, castles in Syria and Crusader castles.
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Phoenicia
Phoenicia, or Phœnicia, was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon.
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Pons, Count of Tripoli
Pons (1098 – 25 March 1137) was count of Tripoli from 1112 to 1137.
See Chastel Rouge and Pons, Count of Tripoli
Qalawun
(قلاوون الصالحي, – November 10, 1290) was the seventh Turkic Bahri Mamluk Sultan of Egypt; he ruled from 1279 to 1290.
Raymond III, Count of Tripoli
Raymond III (1140 – September/October 1187) was count of Tripoli from 1152 to 1187.
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Safita
Safita (صَافِيتَا; 𐤎𐤐𐤕𐤄, Sōpūte) is a city in the Tartous Governorate, northwestern Syria, located to the southeast of Tartous and to the northwest of Krak des Chevaliers.
Saladin
Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (– 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty.
Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
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
Tartus (طَرْطُوس / ALA-LC: Ṭarṭūs; known in the County of Tripoli as Tortosa and also transliterated from French Tartous) is a major port city on the Mediterranean coast of Syria. Chastel Rouge and Tartus are Archaeological sites in Tartus Governorate.
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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Tripoli, Lebanon
Tripoli (طَرَابُلُس) is the largest and most important city in northern Lebanon and the second-largest city in the country. Chastel Rouge and Tripoli, Lebanon are castles and fortifications of the Knights Hospitaller.
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Yahmur
Yahmur (يحمور; also spelled Yahmour) is a village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Tartus Governorate.
See also
Archaeological sites in Tartus Governorate
- Al-Kahf Castle
- Amrit
- Arwad
- Chastel Rouge
- Hosn Suleiman
- Khawabi
- Margat
- Sumur (Levant)
- Tartus
- Tell Kazel
Buildings and structures in Tartus Governorate
- Al-Kahf Castle
- Chastel Blanc
- Chastel Rouge
- Margat
Castles and fortifications of the Knights Hospitaller
- Acre, Israel
- Apollonia–Arsuf
- Arab al-Mulk
- Arqa
- Bayt Jibrin
- Beit She'an
- Belvoir Castle (Israel)
- Bodrum Castle
- Burgata
- Cafarlet
- Castello della Magione
- Castello di Punta Pagana
- Castle Upton
- Château de Condat, Dordogne
- Château de la Montagne
- Chastel Rouge
- Coliath
- Compesières Commandry
- Ein Hemed
- Fort Saint-Jean (Marseille)
- Fortifications of Rhodes
- Gastria Castle
- Gibelacar
- Kafr Lam
- Kolossi Castle
- Krak des Chevaliers
- Mailberg
- Margat
- Mount Tabor
- Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes
- Qalansawe
- Qula
- Qurfays
- Roche-Guillaume
- Silifke Castle
- Taibe, Galilee
- Tel Afek
- Tokmar Castle
- Toron
- Tripoli, Lebanon
Castles in Syria
- Abu Qubays, Syria
- Al-Kahf Castle
- Al-Rahba
- Aleika Castle
- Bani Qahtan Castle
- Bourzey castle
- Castle of al-Al
- Chastel Blanc
- Chastel Rouge
- Citadel of Aleppo
- Citadel of Damascus
- Citadel of Homs
- Citadel of Tartus
- Hama Castle
- Jabal Sais
- Khawabi
- Krak des Chevaliers
- List of Assassin strongholds
- List of castles in Syria
- Mahalibeh Castle
- Maniqa
- Margat
- Masyaf Castle
- Montferrand (crusader castle)
- Nimrod Castle
- Palmyra Castle
- Qal'at Ja'bar
- Qal'at Najm
- Qalaat al-Madiq
- Qasr Ibn Wardan
- Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi
- Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi
- Sahyun Castle
- Shaizar
- Shmemis
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chastel_Rouge
Also known as Castrum rubrum.