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    Belvoir Castle (Kochav HaYarden)

    Lower GalileeIsrael1168–1189

    Belvoir Castle, known in Hebrew as Kochav HaYarden ('Star of the Jordan') and in Arabic as Kawkab al-Hawa ('Star of the Wind'), is a perfectly concentric Crusader fortress perched 500 meters above the Jordan Valley. Built by the Knights Hospitaller in 1168, the castle withstood a grueling eighteen-month siege by Saladin following the Battle of Hattin. Night visitors and park workers report encountering phantom sentinels along the outer dry moat, faint Latin hymns echoing from the ruined chapel, and an eerie atmosphere atop the wind-swept plateau.

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