Toron
Crusader castle in Lebanon / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Lordship of Toron | |
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Status | Vassal of Kingdom of Jerusalem |
Capital | Toron |
Common languages | Latin, Old French, Italian (also Arabic and Greek) |
Religion | Roman Catholicism, Eastern Catholicism, Greek Orthodoxy, Syriac Orthodoxy, Islam, Judaism |
Government | Feudal monarchy |
• c.1100 | Godfrey of Bouillon |
• 1110 | Hugh I of Jaffa |
Historical era | High Middle Ages |
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