Cave de Sueth (medieval French name; in modern French: Cave de Suète[1]), known from medieval Latin sources as Cava de Suet, as Habis Jaldak in medieval Arabic and as 'Ain al-Habis (Arabic: عين الحبيس, romanized: Spring of the Hermit's retreat)[2] in modern Arabic, was a 12th-century cave castle built into the southern cliffs of the Yarmouk River gorge in modern-day Jordan,[3] across from the southern foothills of the Golan Heights.[4] It was located at the edge of the Terre de Suète[1] region (al-Sawad, "the black" in Arabic).[2]
East CavedeSueth (Cavede Suète) or Habis Jaldak, Yarmouk Valley, Jordan Magharat Fakhr ad-Din, inland of Sidon, Lebanon Fortress of Niha, or Cavede Tyron...
territory, then on Bosra, before finally laying siege and capturing CavedeSueth. In the winter of 1182–3 after agreeing on a strategy with his council...
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damage. Joseph M. Delaville Le Roulx, Cartulaire général de l'ordre des Hospitaliers de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem (1100-1301), vol. I, Paris 1894, p 395-396...
Jordan Major castles Ajloun Castle Amathus, Transjordan Aqaba Fortress CavedeSueth Hammam al-Sarah Kerak Castle Montreal (castle) Montréal (castle) Vaux...
Jordan Major castles Ajloun Castle Amathus, Transjordan Aqaba Fortress CavedeSueth Hammam al-Sarah Kerak Castle Montreal (castle) Montréal (castle) Vaux...
II: El‐ʿEla, d'Hégra à Tiema, Harrah de Tebouk: Atlas. By Antonin Jaussen and Raphaël Savignac. Publications de la Société des fouilles archéologiques...
Jordan Major castles Ajloun Castle Amathus, Transjordan Aqaba Fortress CavedeSueth Hammam al-Sarah Kerak Castle Montreal (castle) Montréal (castle) Vaux...
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