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Turning point · The Crusades, 1095–1291
Krak des Chevaliers
From 1142 — the Hospitallers rebuild a hilltop fort into the greatest castle of the age, holding perhaps 2,000 men. A handful of such strongholds let a few thousand Franks govern a land they could never demographically fill.
This is one scene of Chapter 3 — A Society on the Edge in The Crusades, 1095–1291.
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