Remains of the 12th and 13th Century Rural Settlement in the Southern Littoral of Syria (First Report on the Fieldwork)

Remains of the 12th and 13th Century Rural Settlement in the Southern Littoral of Syria (First Report on the Fieldwork)

Balázs Major (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Piliscsaba)

Abstract

The monuments under study owe their existence to the Crusader movement, or more precisely, to the efforts of those Europeans who were drawn to the Levant by this movement and attempted to settle outside the Crusader port towns.

Keywords

Syria, crusader settlements, archaeology