This page contains links to 72 photographs of Levantine castles and portions of
detailed maps showing their locations. The pictures are taken from two books.

Les Châteaux des Croisés en Terre Sainte: Le Crac des Chevaliers, étude historique et
archéologique précédée d'une introduction générale sur la Syrie Franque, vol.
"Album", by Paul Deschamps, Bibliothèque Archéologique et Historique, Tome XIX,
Paris, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1934. (This book will be avreviated with:
CDC).

Les Châteaux des Croisés en Terre Sainte II: La Défense du Royaume de Jérusalem,
étude historique, géographique et monumentale, vol. "Album", by Paul Deschamps,
Bibliothèque Archéologique et Historique, Tome XXXIV, Paris, Librairie
Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1939. (This book will be avreviated with: DRJ).

The names of the pictures will be composed of: the name of the locality (Crac des
Chevaliers), the name of the book (CDC), the number of the "planche" (XLVII: the
plate on which the pictures are mounted, rather than the page number) and the number
of the picture (B).Whenever available, extra information will follow, also the name
of the person who took the photo and the date.

An example o such a name would then be: Crac_des_Chevaliers-CDC-XLVII-B:
Face nord-est avec poterne masquée par un contrefort, Phot. Capitaine Lamblin.

As far as the dates of these pictures are converned, from the date of publication of the
books, the pictures in the CDC are no later than 1934 and the pictures i DRJ are no
later than 1939.

As far as the maps are concerned, they are repoductions of sections of the map: Carte
Générale du Liban 1/200 000e, Routière et Technique; Ministère de la Défense
Nationale, État-Major de L'Armée: Direction des Affaires Géographiques, Beyrouth,
(1972?). The maps will be designated by the general region they depict. In cases where
they depict more specific regions, the general region will be given followed by the
specific locality.

Oslo, October 1994
Børre Ludvigsen, Elie Wardini