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Toron
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thumb|1857 sketch of Kalat Tibnin by Charles William Meredith van de Velde|van de Velde thumb|Crusader castle in the village of Tebnine thumb|View from the Toron castle

Key facts

Country.conventional_long_name
Lordship of Toron
Country.common_name
Toron
Country.era
High Middle Ages
Country.status
Vassal of Kingdom of Jerusalem
Country.image_map
1187 Lordship of Toron.svg
Country.image_map_caption
Lordship of Toron in 1187
Country.capital
Toron
Country.common_languages
Latin, Old French, Italian (also Arabic and Greek)
Country.religion
Roman Catholicism, Eastern Catholicism, Greek Orthodoxy, Syriac Orthodoxy, Islam, Judaism
Country.government_type
Feudal monarchy
Country.leader1
Godfrey of Bouillon
Country.year_leader1
c.1100
Country.leader2
Hugh I of Jaffa
Country.year_leader2
1110

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
Contents
  • Lordship of Toron
  • Lords of Toron
  • The castle
  • See also
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|1857 sketch of Kalat Tibnin by Charles William Meredith van de Velde|van de Velde thumb|Crusader castle in the village of Tebnine thumb|View from the Toron castle

Toron, now Tibnin or Tebnine in southern Lebanon, was a major Crusader castle, built in the Lebanon mountains on the road from Tyre to Damascus. The castle was the centre of the Lordship of Toron, a seigneury within the Kingdom of Jerusalem, actually a rear-vassalage of the Principality of Galilee.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Toron” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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