Crusades · TURNING POINT ·
Krak des Chevaliers (1142)
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.
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- Crusader states (Outremer) (chapter 3 of Crusades)
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- The Crusades, 1095–1291
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