Scandelion Castle

File:Kalat Schemma CharlesWilliamMeredithVanDeVelde1857 p130 illustration39.jpg

"Kal'at Sham'aa" - illustration by Dutch painter Charles William Meredith van de Velde, who travelled the region in 1851

The Scandelion Castle was built by the Crusaders in what is today South Lebanon in 1116,^[1] during the reign of Baldwin I of Jerusalem. Other sources indicate that they took the town known in medieval Arabic as Iskandarouna (Iskandaruna), called by the Crusaders Scandelion^[2]^{[better source needed]} or Scandalion / Scandalium,^[3] in 1124.^[2] It became a strategic high ground, used to defend Tyre.^[2] The site is today at the Lebanese village of Shamaa.

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Lebanon	Arqa File:Coat of arms of the House of Toulouse-Tripoli.png Batroun File:Coat of arms of the House of Toulouse-Tripoli.png Beaufort Castle File:Blason Royaume de Jérusalem.svg Beirut Castle File:Blason Royaume de Jérusalem.svg Belhacem File:Blason Royaume de Jérusalem.svg Byblos Castle File:Coat of arms of the House of Toulouse-Tripoli.png Citadel of Tripoli File:Coat of arms of the House of Toulouse-Tripoli.png Dubay Castle Gibelacar File:Coat of arms of the House of Toulouse-Tripoli.png Coliath File:Coat of arms of the House of Toulouse-Tripoli.png File:Cross of the Knights Hospitaller.svg Deir Kifa Castle Hasbaya Castle Moinetre File:Coat of arms of the House of Toulouse-Tripoli.png Puy du Connétable, Castrum Constabularii Nephin File:Coat of arms of the House of Toulouse-Tripoli.png Saint Louis Castle File:Blason Royaume de Jérusalem.svg Scandelion Castle File:Blason Royaume de Jérusalem.svg Sidon Sea Castle File:Blason Royaume de Jérusalem.svg Toron File:Blason Royaume de Jérusalem.svg
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