Margat
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Margat, also known as Marqab (), is a castle near Baniyas, Syria, which was a Crusader fortress and one of the major strongholds of the Knights Hospitaller. It is located around from the Mediterranean coast and approximately south of Baniyas. The castle remained in a poor state of preservation until 2007 when some reconstruction and renovation began.
Key facts
- Settlement.utc_offset_DST
- +3
- Military installation.name
- Margat
- Military installation.location
- Near Baniyas, Syria
- Military installation.image
- 300px
- Military installation.caption
- Margat, a Crusader castle in northern Syria
- Military installation.map_type
- Syria
- Military installation.map_size
- 280
- Military installation.type
- Concentric castle
- Military installation.built
- 1062
- Military installation.materials
- Basalt
- Military installation.condition
- Ruin, under renovation
- Military installation.ownership
- Al-Markabi Family
- Military installation.open_to_public
- Yes
- Settlement.official_name
- Al-Marqab
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Syria
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 280
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Fortress
- History
- Architecture
- Village of al-Marqab
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
Margat, also known as Marqab (), is a castle near Baniyas, Syria, which was a Crusader fortress and one of the major strongholds of the Knights Hospitaller. It is located around from the Mediterranean coast and approximately south of Baniyas. The castle remained in a poor state of preservation until 2007 when some reconstruction and renovation began.
==Fortress==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Margat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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