Note 274 — Chapter X · THE EDWARDIAN CASTLE AND THE CONCENTRIC PLAN
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Le Krak (Kala’at-el-Hosn) was rebuilt in 1202, and held by the Franks till 1271 (Enlart, ii. 536). It was a frontier fortress of the county of Tripoli in Syria, commanding the mountain country to the east, and must be distinguished from the great castle of Kerak in Moab, near the Dead sea, built about 1140, and surrendered in 1188, “the eastern bulwark of the kingdom of Jerusalem” (Oman, Art of War, 541). The entrance to the castle of Kerak has been described above, pp. 240, 241.