Despite its apparent impregnability (Salah ah-Din once aborted an attack on the castle, believing it to be too strongly fortified), Marqab did not survive for long.
The last Crusader castle in Syria to fall to reconquering Islamic armies, Marqab was taken by the Mamluke Sultan Qalaun in 1285. The crusades were going so badly by this stage that Marqab was garrisoned by a mere handful of Europeans. They surrendered following a five-week siege.
Margat (العربية: قلعة المرقب (سورية)) is a tourist attraction, one of the Crusader castles in Margab, Siria. It is located: 438 km from Beirut, 481 km from Aleppo, 560 km from Damascus. Read further
