Site Name |
Ancient/Variant Names |
Coordinates |
Occupation |
Foundation of fortification |
Type of Site |
Type of Fortification |
State of Preservation |
Excavation (E), Survey (S) |
Excavation report (E), Monograph
(M) |
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Abū Qubays (Ar.) |
Qal‘at
Abū Qubaysa (Ar.) |
35.235378, 36.330906 |
Byz
(999-?); Local rulers (?-c.1133); Ism (c.1133-c.1135); Cru (c.1135-38);
Banū Munqidh (1138-70s); Ayy (1170s-c.1272); Mam (c.1272-) |
10th
century (local rulers) |
Castle |
Concentric
hilltop castle |
Extant
walls (renovated) |
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Ayla (Ar.) |
see Crusader: Aila |
29.530685, 34.999946 |
Fat (-1116); Cru (1116-?); Fat
(?-c.1142); Cru (c.1142-70); Ayy (1170-81); Cru (1181-82); Ayy (1182-1250);
Mam (1250-) |
c.650
(Um) |
Harbour
town (miṣr); prob. ↓
after 1116 in favour of the castle on Pharaoh´s Island (Jazīrat Firā`ūn) |
Large castrum-type
fortification |
Foundation
walls (excavated) |
(E) Whitcomb
1986-95 |
(S) Meloy
1990/91; (E) Whitcomb 1989-97 (articles); (E) Whitcomb 1994; (M) Pringle
2005; (E) Rucker/Niemi 2005; (M) Whitcomb 2006; (M) De Meulemeester/Pringle
2008 |
|
Ayla (Ar.), Khān |
id. |
29.52158, 35.002119 |
Ayy
(late 12th century-1250); Mam (1250-) |
late
12th century (Ayy) |
Fortified
khān |
Castrum-type castle (Ott) |
Good
(renovated) |
(E) De Meulemeester/
Pringle/Al-Shqour 2001-08 |
(E) De Meulemeester/Pringle
2001-07; (M) id. 2006, 2008; (M) Pringle 2005; (E) De Meulemeester/Al-Shqour
2004, 2006; (E) Al-Shqour/De Meulemeester/Herremans 2009 |
|
‘Ajlūn (Ar.) |
Qal‘at
al-Rabaḍ (Ar.) |
32.325121, 35.727741 |
Ayy
(1184-1260); Mon (1260); Mam (1260-) |
1184
(Ayy) |
Castle |
Hilltop
castle, modified castrum-type |
Good
(renovated) |
(E)
Ricci 1927-29 |
(M)
Johns 1931; (M) Müller-Wiener 1966, 58-59; (M) Bowen 1981; (M) al-Qudah 1993;
(M) Korn II 2004, 96-98; (M) Yovitchitch 2008 |
|
Amacha (Fr.) |
Malacha
(Fr.) |
unidentified;
prob. Tall Aḥmar SW of Suruç |
Art
(bef. 1098-?) |
Unknown |
Castle |
Hilltop
castle |
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`Ammān (Ar.) |
see Crusader: Ahamant |
31.954441, 35.934883 |
Cru (1118/28-bef. 1170↓);
Ayy (1188-1260); Mam (1260-) |
Rom |
Former
castle |
Tower
(south tower of upper citadel), prob. Ayy |
Ground
walls |
(E,
S) Northedge 1979, 1981 |
(E)
Northedge 1983 |
|
al-Azraq (Ar.) |
|
31.880260, 36.827400 |
Ayy (1237-) |
Rom |
Castle,
border post |
Castrum |
Extant
walls (renovated) |
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