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List Of Knights Hospitaller Sites
The Knights Hospitaller operated a wide network of properties in the Middle Ages from their successive seats in Jerusalem, Acre, Cyprus, Rhodes and eventually Malta. In the early 14th century, they received many properties and assets previously in the hands of the Knights Templar. Middle East Kingdom of Jerusalem This includes both the Kingdom of Jerusalem and its Vassal entities. * The eponymous hospital, in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem's neighborhood now known as Muristan just south of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, including the Church of Saint John the Baptist, 1099–1187. The Templars also held the Church of Saint Mary of the Germans for a brief period until 1244. * The Hospitaller commandery of Saint-Jean-d'Acre, ca. 1130–1187 and 1191–1291; the Hospitallers administered the whole city of Acre from 1229 to its fall in 1291. * Bayt Jibrin (''Beth Gibelin'') northwest of Hebron, 1136–1187 * the Benedictine monastery in Abu Ghosh near Jerusalem, bui ...
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Maltan Knights Castle In Rh
The Maltan (russian: Малтан) is a river in Magadan Oblast, Russia. It has a length of and a drainage basin of . The Maltan is the longest tributary of the Bakhapcha, of the Kolyma basin. The river flows across an uninhabited area, the nearest village is Sinegorye, located to the north. The name of the river originated in an Even word for "bend" or "curvature".Leontyev V.V. , Novikova K.A. ''Toponymic dictionary of the North-East of the USSR'', USSR Academy of Sciences. Magadan, 1989 - p. 246 - ISBN 5-7581-0044-7 Course The source of the Maltan is in the northern slopes of Mount Nukh (Гора Нух) of the Olsky Plateau area, at the western end of the Kolyma Mountains, close to the R504 Kolyma Highway. It flows near Atka in its upper course, not far from the sources of the Yama. The river heads in a NNW direction along the western slopes of the Maymandzhin Range. Finally it turns to the WNW below the southern slopes of Mount Khetinskaya (Гора Хетинская) and ...
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Greek Orthodox Church Of Saint John The Baptist, Jerusalem
The Church of Saint John the Baptist ( he, כנסיית יוחנן המטביל) is a small Greek Orthodox church in the Muristan area of the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem. In its current form, most of the above-ground church dates to the 11th century, and the crypt to the Late Roman or Byzantine period (between ca. AD 324 and 500). History Byzantine period The first structure, a north-south oriented trefoil building, was built sometime in the 4th-6th century and served for unknown purposes. It was damaged at the Persian conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and then extensively modified. A source can be interpreted to mean that it was restored during the 7th century by John the Almoner, Patriarch of Alexandria. Medieval period By the 11th century the ancient structure had sunk to at least 3 metres beneath the street level, with its doors and windows blocked, and served as a storage place for goods and water. During this century, an organisation of Amalfitan merchants settled in Jer ...
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Burgata
Burgata ( he, בורגתה, בּוּרְגְתָא), also Burgeta, is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain on Highway 57 between Netanya and Tulkarm, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Crusader period The date of the construction of the fort is unknown. Until 1189, it was property of the Knights Templar. The "Maria Latin" convent, erected on the site, was acquired by the Knights Hospitallers The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem ( la, Ordo Fratrum Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani), commonly known as the Knights Hospitaller (), was a medieval and early modern Catholic military order. It was headqu ... in 1248. Moshav Burgata The modern moshav was founded in 1949 by immigrants from Morocco and Turkey, and was named after the town of Burgata from the Amoraim era. Like many moshavim in Israel, the original homesteads now have given way to new n ...
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Qalansawe
Qalansawe or Qalansuwa ( ar, قلنسوة, he, קלנסווה, lit. "turban") is an Arab city in the Central District (Israel), Central District of Israel. Part of Triangle (Israel), the Triangle, in it had a population of . History Medieval During the Abbasid Revolution in 750, which toppled the Umayyad Caliphate, numerous members of the Umayyad dynasty were deported to Qalansawe from Egypt for execution, including descendants of caliphs Umar II () and Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik (). From the ninth century until the Crusades, Crusader period, Qalansawe was a stop on the Cairo-Damascus road, between Lajjun and Ramla. During the Crusader period, the village was known as ''Calanson'', ''Calansue'', ''Calanzon'' or ''Kalensue''.Pringle, 1997, pp7778/ref> In 1128, it was given to the Hospitallers by the knight Godfrey of Flujeac. Yaqut al-Hamawi, Yaqut (d. 1229) wrote that Qalansawe, Castle of the Plans, of the Crusaders, was a fortress near Ramle. He adds that "many of the Omayya ...
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Netanya
Netanya (also known as Natanya, he, נְתַנְיָה) is a city in the Northern Central District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa, between Poleg stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the Avihayil stream in the north. Netanya was named in honor of Nathan Straus, a prominent Jewish American merchant and philanthropist in the early 20th century who was the co-owner of Macy's department store. Its of beaches have made the city a popular tourist resort. In , it had a population of , making it the 7th-largest city in Israel by population. An additional 150,000 people live in the local and regional councils within of Netanya, which serves as a regional center for them. The city mayor is Miriam Feirberg. History Netanya was established near the ancient site of Poleg by the Bnei Binyamin association in Zikhron Ya'akov. It was named in honor of Nathan (Hebrew: ''Natan'') Straus (1848–1931), ...
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Apollonia–Arsuf
Apollonia ( grc, Απολλωνία; he, אפולוניה), known in the Early Islamic period as Arsuf ( ar, أرْسُوف, translit=Arsūf) and in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem as Arsur, was an ancient city on the Mediterranean coast of what is today Israel. In Israeli archaeology it is known as Tel Arshaf (). Founded by the Phoenicians during the Persian period in the late sixth century BCE, it was inhabited continuously until the Crusader period, through the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods, during the latter being renamed to Sozusa ( grc, Σώζουσα, links=no, or ''Sozusa in Palaestina'' to differentiate it from Sozusa in Libya).Cohen, Getzel M., ''The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa'' (2006)p. 234 It was situated on a sandy area ending towards the sea with a cliff, about south of Caesarea. It fell to the Muslims in 640, was fortified against Byzantine attacks and became known as Arsuf. In 1101 it was conquered ...
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Ein Hemed
Ein Hemed is a national park and nature reserve in the hills seven kilometres west of modern Jerusalem and some 12 kilometres west of the Old City. It is also known by the Latin name it received from the Crusaders, Aqua Bella, and as Khirbat Iqbalā in Arabic. The park is located on the path of an old Roman road, also used in later periods. The road connected the coastal plain with Jerusalem, passing through Bab al-Wad. A fortified Hospitaller building from the Crusader period, relatively well preserved, is arguably the main attraction beside the streams and lush vegetation. Name The Crusaders named it "Aqua Bella" in Latin,Pringle, 1993, p239/ref> a name which was corrupted in Arabic to Iqbalā, thus becoming Khirbet Iqbalā, "Iqbalā Ruins". The 19th-century Arabic name was Deir el-Benat, also spelled Dayr al-Banat, "convent of the maidens" and "Khurbet Ikbala", interpreted at the time to mean "The ruin of prosperity"; perhaps "the southern ruin", or "the ruin opposite." H ...
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Suba, Jerusalem
Suba ( ar, صوبا) was a Palestinian Arab village west of Jerusalem that was depopulated and destroyed in 1948. The site of the village lies on the summit of a conical hill called Tel Tzova ( he, תל צובה), or Jabal Suba, rising 769 meters above sea level, and it was built on the ruins of a Crusader castle. Biblical reference The place has been tentatively identified with a town mentioned in the Septuagint version oJoshua 15:59 The Septuagint gives a list of eleven towns, which is missing in the Masoretic text. One of them is given as Σωρης ('Sōrēs') in most manuscripts but as Εωβης ("Eobes") in the Codex Vaticanus. The original therefore might have been Σωβης ("Sōbes"). There has also been a tentative identification with Tzova or Zobah (Greek Σουβα, "Sūba") from the Books of Samuel ( and ), but several scholars consider the identification unfounded. Both the Greek and the Hebrew spellings correspond exactly to the Arabic name of Suba. ` History A ...
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Benedictine Monastery In Abu Ghosh
The Benedictine monastery in Abu Ghosh (St Mary of the Resurrection Abbey; french: Abbaye Sainte-Marie de la Résurrection d'Abu Gosh) is a monastery run by the Olivetan Benedictine order in Abu Ghosh, Israel. It is built on the foundations of the Crusader Church of the Resurrection, or Church of our Lord's Resurrection, It was established in the 12th century on top of Roman ruins in the center of Abu Ghosh, known by the Crusaders as Fontenoid. Until the 19th century, the Arabs called it Qaryet al-'Inab. The site was associated with Emmaus from the Gospel of Luke. France claims ownership of the land under the Ottoman capitulations and says this was formalised by the Fischer-Chauvel Agreement of 1948, which has not been ratified by Israel. History The late Romanesque/early Gothic-style church was built by the Hospitallers in 1140.Women of Bible lands: a pilgrimage to compassion and wisdom By Martha Ann Kirk, page 143 It was acquired by the French government in 1899 and place ...
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Hebron
Hebron ( ar, الخليل or ; he, חֶבְרוֹן ) is a Palestinian. city in the southern West Bank, south of Jerusalem. Nestled in the Judaean Mountains, it lies above sea level. The second-largest city in the West Bank (after East Jerusalem), and the third-largest in the Palestinian territories (after East Jerusalem and Gaza), it has a population of over 215,000 Palestinians (2016), and seven hundred Jewish settlers concentrated on the outskirts of its Old City. It includes the Cave of the Patriarchs, which Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions all designate as the burial site of three key patriarchal/ matriarchal couples. The city is often considered one of the four holy cities in Judaism. as well as in Islam. Hebron is considered one of the oldest cities in the Levant. According to the Bible, Abraham settled in Hebron and bought the Cave of the Patriarchs as a burial place for his wife Sarah. Biblical tradition holds that the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac ...
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Bayt Jibrin
Bayt Jibrin or Beit Jibrin ( ar, بيت جبرين; he, בית גוברין, translit=Beit Gubrin) was a Palestinian village located northwest of the city of Hebron. The village had a total land area of 56,185 dunams or , of which were built-up while the rest remained farmland.''Village Statistics'', Government of Palestine. 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p143 During the 8th century BCE, the village, then known as Maresha, was part of the Kingdom of Judah. During the days of Herod the Great, a Jewish ruler of the Herodian Kingdom, the town was the administrative center for the district of Idumea. After the turmoil of the First Jewish–Roman War and the Bar Kokhba revolt, the town became a thriving Roman colony and a major administrative centre of the Roman Empire under the name of Eleutheropolis. With the rise of Islam in the early 7th century CE, Bayt Jibrin was conquered by Arab forces led by ʽAmr ibn al-ʽAs under the Rashidun Caliphate. Under the Crusaders in th ...
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Siege Of Acre (1291)
The siege of Acre (also called the fall of Acre) took place in 1291 and resulted in the Crusaders losing control of Acre to the Mamluks. It is considered one of the most important battles of the period. Although the crusading movement continued for several more centuries, the capture of the city marked the end of further crusades to the Levant. When Acre fell, the Crusaders lost their last major stronghold of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. They still maintained a fortress at the northern city of Tartus (today in north-western Syria), engaged in some coastal raids, and attempted an incursion from the tiny island of Ruad, but when they lost that as well in 1302 in the siege of Ruad, the Crusaders no longer controlled any part of the Holy Land. Background In 1187, Saladin conquered much of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (also called the Latin Kingdom), including Acre and Jerusalem, after winning the Battle of Hattin and inflicting heavy losses on the Crusaders. The Third Crusad ...
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