Scandelion Castle

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.

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

See also

• List of Crusader castles