Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Crac des Chevaliers and Qal’at Salah El-Din' has mentioned 'Crusaders' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| Crusaders) Le Crat and then by a confusion with karak (fortress), Le Crac. | WIKI |
| Note that historically, Arabic speakers referred to Crusaders inaccurately as "Franks" and "Latins" to distinguish them from Christian Byzantines as the Crusaders called local Muslims "Saracens. | WIKI |
| After the Knights Hospitaller took control of the castle, it became known as Crac de l'Ospital; according to Guillaume Rey's 1871 work, it was designated by chroniclers of the Crusaders as the Crac des Chevaliers (alternatively spelt Krak des Chevaliers), where Chevalier is French for "Knight" (c.f. | WIKI |
| The crusaders briefly occupied the castle in February of the same year but abandoned it when they continued their march towards Jerusalem. | WIKI |
| After the success of the First Crusade in capturing Jerusalem in 1099, many Crusaders donated their new property in the Levant to the Hospital of St John. | WIKI |
| [26] In 1163 the Crusaders emerged victorious over Nur ad-Din in the Battle of al-Buqaia near Krak des Chevaliers. | WIKI |
| Drought conditions between 1175 and 1180 prompted the Crusaders to sign a two-year truce with the Muslims, but without Tripoli included in the terms. | WIKI |
| Unwilling to meet him in open battle, the Crusaders retreated to the relative safety of their fortifications. | WIKI |
| [29] The Battle of Hattin in 1187 was a disastrous defeat for the Crusaders: Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem, was captured, as was the True Cross, a relic discovered during the First Crusade. | WIKI |
| Crusaders who passed through the area would often stop at the castle, and probably made donations. | WIKI |
| The main contemporary accounts relating to Krak des Chevaliers are of Muslim origin and tend to emphasise Muslim success while overlooking setbacks against the Crusaders although they suggest that the Knights Hospitaller forced the settlements of Hama and Homs to pay tribute to the Order. | WIKI |
| Though the outer ward had fallen, with a handful of the garrison killed in the process, the Crusaders retreated to the more formidable inner ward. | WIKI |
| To the south of the outer ward was a triangular outwork and the Crusaders may have intended to build stone walls and towers around it. | WIKI |