Scandelion Castle
Castle in Lebanon
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The Scandelion Castle was built by the Crusaders in what is today South Lebanon in 1116,[1] during the reign of Baldwin I of Jerusalem. Other sources indicate that they took the town known in medieval Arabic as Iskandarouna (Iskandaruna), called by the Crusaders Scandelion[2][better source needed] or Scandalion / Scandalium,[3] in 1124.[2] It became a strategic high ground, used to defend Tyre.[2] The site is today at the Lebanese village of Shamaa.
