Aleika Castle or Aliqa Castle ( ar, قلعة العليقة) is located in
Aliqa
Aliqa or Al-Ullayqah ( ar, العليقة ) is a Syrian village located in Baniyas District, Tartus. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Aliqa had a population of 720 in the 2004 census. The village has Aleika Castle which ...
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at distance 85 km, it consists of two floor structures, a type of
concentric castle
A concentric castle is a castle with two or more concentric curtain walls, such that the outer wall is lower than the inner and can be defended from it. The layout was square (at Belvoir and Beaumaris) where the terrain permitted, or an irregu ...
. Historically (12th century) it was under Syrian
Nizari Isma'ili
The Nizaris ( ar, النزاريون, al-Nizāriyyūn, fa, نزاریان, Nezāriyān) are the largest segment of the Ismaili Muslims, who are the second-largest branch of Shia Islam after the Twelvers. Nizari teachings emphasize independen ...
control, and had part during the crusades. Cemetery stones are found in the castle with
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power ...
inscriptions, which confirms that fights took place here during the
Crusades
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these Crusades are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were ...
. The Mamluk Sultan
Baibars
Al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Bunduqdari ( ar, الملك الظاهر ركن الدين بيبرس البندقداري, ''al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Rukn al-Dīn Baybars al-Bunduqdārī'') (1223/1228 – 1 July 1277), of Turkic Kipchak o ...
is mentioned in the archives of the Syrian Tourism ministry.
Syrian Tourism Ministry Website
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See also
*List of castles in Syria
This is a list of castles in Syria.
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List of castles
See also
* List of castles
* List of Crusader castles
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*List of Ismaili castles
List of the strongholds or dar al-hijra of the Nizari Ismaili state in Persia (Iran) and Syria.
Most of the Persian Ismaili castles were in the Alborz mountains, in the regions of Daylaman (particularly, in Alamut and Rudbar; north of modern- ...
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