Concentric castle
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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 where the terrain permitt
Krak des Chevaliers (Syria), the best preserved of the concentric crusader castles
Castle of Margat (Syria), 1062–
Belvoir Castle (Israel), 1150
Münzenberg Castle (Hesse), 1162
Belvoir Castle (Israel)
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Belvoir Castle, also called Coquet by the Crusaders, also Kochav HaYarden and Kawkab al-Hawa, is a Crusader castle in northern Israel, on a hill on the eastern edge of the Issachar Plateau, on the edg
Concentric 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 irregular polygon (at Krak and Margat) where curtain walls of a spur castle followed the contours of…
The remains of Belvoir Castle. Note the two circuits of defensive wall, one inside the other (concentric castle)
Belvoir from southwest