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Chastel Blanc, the Glossary

Chastel Blanc (برج صافيتا, Burj Safita or Safita Tower) is a medieval structure in Safita, western Syria.^[1]

23 relations: Akkar District, Arwad, Baybars, Chastel Rouge, County of Tripoli, Crusades, Gertrude Bell, Knights Hospitaller, Knights Templar, Krak des Chevaliers, Lebanon, List of castles in Syria, Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon, Mediterranean Sea, Michael (archangel), Nur al-Din Zengi, Phoenicia, Safita, Saladin, Syria, Tartus, 1170 Syria earthquake, 1202 Syria earthquake.
Buildings and structures in Tartus Governorate
Castles and fortifications of the Knights Templar
Castles in Syria

Akkar District

Akkar District (قضاء عكار) is the only district in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon.

Arwad

Arwad (translit; translit), the classical Aradus, is a town in Syria on an eponymous island in the Mediterranean Sea. Chastel Blanc and Arwad are castles and fortifications of the Knights Templar.

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Al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Bunduqdari (الملك الظاهر ركن الدين بيبرس البندقداري; 1223/1228 – 1 July 1277), commonly known as Baibars or Baybars and nicknamed Abu al-Futuh (أبو الفتوح), was the fourth Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria, of Turkic Kipchak origin, in the Bahri dynasty, succeeding Qutuz.

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Chastel Rouge

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. Chastel Blanc and Chastel Rouge are Buildings and structures in Tartus Governorate and castles in Syria.

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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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Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist.

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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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Knights Templar

The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, mainly known as the Knights Templar, was a French military order of the Catholic faith, and one of the wealthiest and most popular military orders in Western Christianity.

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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 Blanc and Krak des Chevaliers are castles in Syria.

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Lebanon

Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.

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List of castles in Syria

This is a list of castles in Syria. Chastel Blanc and list of castles in Syria are castles in Syria.

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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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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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Michael (archangel)

Michael, also called Saint Michael the Archangel, Archangel Michael and Saint Michael the Taxiarch is an archangel in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Baha'i faith.

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Nur al-Din Zengi

Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd Zengī (نور الدين محمود زنگي; February 1118 – 15 May 1174), commonly known as Nur ad-Din (lit. 'Light of the Faith' in Arabic), was a Turkoman member of the Zengid dynasty, who ruled the Syrian province of the Seljuk Empire.

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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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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.

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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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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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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 Blanc and Tartus are castles and fortifications of the Knights Templar.

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1170 Syria earthquake

The 1170 Syria earthquake was one of the largest earthquakes to hit Syria.

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1202 Syria earthquake

The 1202 Syria earthquake struck at about dawn on 20 May 1202 (598 AH) with an epicenter in southwestern Syria.

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References

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

Also known as Burj Safita, Castle Blanc, Safita Tower.