List of Crusader castles

Crusader states

Geographic location on today's map

• Kingdom of Cyprus: Island of Cyprus
• County of Edessa: south-east Turkey
• Principality of Antioch: north-west Syria, southern Turkey
• County of Tripoli: northern Lebanon, north-west Syria
• Kingdom of Jerusalem
• *Lordship of Sidon: central Lebanon
• *Principality of Galilee: northern Israel, southern Lebanon, southwest Syria
• *County of Jaffa and Ascalon: southern Israel, eastern Egypt
• *Lordship of Oultrejordain: south-west Jordan

  Crusader castles by modern states

Cyprus

• Buffavento Castle
• Famagusta
• Kantara Castle
• Kolossi Castle
• Kyrenia Castle
• Larnaca Castle
• Limassol Castle
• Paphos Castle
• St. Hilarion Castle

  Egypt

• Ile de Graye

  Greece

• The Grandmasters Palace of the Knights Hospitaller of St. John on Rhodes island
• Platamon Castle
• Kastellorizo Castle
• Halki Castle
• Kos Castle
• Amfissa Castle
• Leros island castle
• Corfu castles

  Israel

• Acre – fortified city
• Aqua Bella, now Ein Hemed – Crusader fortified farm; national park
• Arsuf, also known as Arsur or Apollonia – fortified city and citadel, stronghold of the Lordship of Arsuf; national park
• Ashkelon – fortified city
• Belinas – Banias; fortified town
• Belmont – ruins of Crusader castle in Kibbutz Tzova
• Belveer – Crusader castle of which no traces remain; national park
• Belvoir Castle; Kochav HaYarden National Park
• Bet Shean – castle ruins next to ancient town, stronghold of the Lordship of Bethsan. Second castle on the tell.
• Beth Gibelin at Eleutheropolis – castle ruins next to ancient town, stronghold of the Lordship of Beth Gibelin; national park
• Bethaatap, Arabic: Bayt 'Itab – fortified manor
• Blanchegarde at Tell es-Safi – castle, seat of a lordship at biblical tell
• Caco or Cacho Castle, Qaqun; rebuilt by Baybars; national park
• Caesarea, stronghold of the Lordship of Caesarea – fortified port city; national park
• Cafarlet – ruins of Umayyad fort reused by the Crusaders
• Calansue, Hospitaller castle
• Casal Imbert – at Achziv – Crusader "new town" with tower; nothing discernible at present
• Casel des Plains – Azor; ruins of Crusader tower; inside town
• Castellum Beleismum – tower on biblical Tel Dothan
• Castellum Beroart – the Minat al-Qal'a Umayyad fort reused by the Crusaders; at Ashdod
• Castellum Regis; castle, now inside village of Mi'ilya
• Caymont at Tel Yokneam, seat of lordship
• Chastel Hernaut or Arnoul, Latin: Castellum Arnaldi – castle at Yalu
• Chastel Neuf or Castellum Novum outside Margaliot, castle, rebuilt in Ottoman time
• Chastellet, castle ruin by Jacob's Ford: see Battle of Jacob's Ford; also known as Vadum Iacob, le Chastelez, Ateret, Qasr al-'Atra
• Castellum Rogerii Langobardi – castle at Umm Khalid/Netaniya
• Château Pèlerin, also known as Atlit Castle and Castle Pilgrim; off-reach military base
• Chastel Béroard – the Umayyad fort of Minat al-Qal'a at Ashdod-Yam, reused by the Crusaders
• Destroit, Le, near Atlit
• Forbelet Castle at Taibe, Galilee; battle site near the Hospitaller castle
• Givat Titora, castle ruins
• Ibelin, near Yavne
• Jaffa, fortified port town
• Judin Castle at Khirbat Jiddin or Yehiam Fortress – Crusader castle, rebuilt in the 18th century; national park
• Merle - fortified enclosure, Arabic name: Burj al-Habis and Qal'at al-Tantura, at Dor/Tantura
• Mirabel, in Hebrew: Migdal Tsedek, stronghold of the Lordship of Mirabel
• Montfort; inside national park
• Qula, Crusader tower and a vaulted structure
• Ramla, stronghold of the Lordship of Ramla
• Safed, large castle on the tallest hill, rebuilt by Baybars
• Saforie, le or Sepphoris, Saffuriya : tower; national park
• Tel Hanaton – fortified farm
• Tiberias – fortified Crusader city immediately north of abandoned city established in Roman times; on the shore of the Sea of Galilee
• Toron des Chevaliers, at Latrun
• Tour Rouge or Turris Rubea at Burgata – Arabic: Burj al-Ahmar, Hebrew: Hurvat Burgata
• Tower of David – the citadel of Jerusalem
• Turris Salinarum at Tel Taninim – Crusader tower, the only remains of the castle

  Discarded proposals

• Nimrod Fortress, Arabic names Qal'at Nimrud and Qal'at as-Subayba; Ayyubid castle expanded by Baibars, built to protect the road to Damascus from Crusaders and Muslim rivals; wrongly believed to be a Crusader castle; now a national park

  Jordan

• Ajloun Castle
• Kerak Castle
• Montreal
• Tafilah
• Al-Habis at Petra
• Vaux Moise near Petra

  Doubtful proposals

• Aqaba – doubtful, no traces found; castle on Ile de Graye might have been meant instead
• Diban Castle
• Hisban Crusader Castle

  Discarded proposals

• Jarash: the Temple of Artemis was reused as a castle by the Damascenes and destroyed by Baldwin II of Jerusalem, was therefore not used by the Crusaders.

  Lebanon

• Arqa
• Batroun
• Beaufort Castle
• Beirut
• Byblos Castle
• Citadel of Raymond de Saint-Gilles
• Gibelacar
• Coliath
• Mseilha Fort
• Nephin
• Saint Louis Castle – Sidon Land Castle
• Sidon Sea Castle, stronghold of the Lordship of Toron
• Toron, stronghold of the Lordship of Toron

  Syria

• Adimeh,
• Areimeh,
• Baniyas
• Bourzey castle
• Chastel Blanc
• Chastel Rouge
• Krak des Chevaliers
• Maraclea
• Margat, also known as Marqab
• Masyaf Castle
• Montferrand
• Qadmous
• Rouad
• Saladdin Castle, Crusader name: Saône
• Sarmada
• Tartus

  Turkey

• Anavarza Castle
• Antioch
• Amouda
• Ayasuluk Castle, Selçuk
• Bagras
• Geben
• Haruniye
• Kızkalesi
• Namrun Kalesi
• Rumkale
• Servantikar
• Silifke Castle
• Tece
• Tokmar Castle
• T‛il Hamtun
• Trapessac or
• Dumlu Kalesi or
• Yaka Castle

  West Bank, Palestine

• Castrum Sancti Helie - castle ruins at Taybeh
• Cisterna Rubea or Maldoim, Templar castle