Qualla: Citadel of Tripoli https://qualla.com/citadel-of-tripoli en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:31 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/y/1/7/citadel-of-tripoli-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Citadel of Tripoli https://qualla.com/citadel-of-tripoli Citadel of Tripoli: Introduction https://qualla.com/citadel-of-tripoli/ Photo credit Chaps the idol, CC BY-SA 3.0. Somewhere between the second and seventh year of their siege, the Crusaders decided they needed a castle. Between 1102 and 1109, while Raymond de Saint-Gilles and his knights struggled to take the coastal city of Tripoli from its Muslim defenders, they raised a fortress on the hilltop overlooking the port. Raymond called it the Castle of Mount Pilgrim. The locals called it the Castle of Saint-Gilles. Both names stuck, because in this corner of Lebanon, nothing has ever had just one story.

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/y/1/7/citadel-of-tripoli-wp/sy17-citadel-of-tripoli-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Citadel of Tripoli: The Pilgrim's Fortress https://qualla.com/citadel-of-tripoli/ Photo credit Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0. Raymond de Saint-Gilles, Count of Toulouse, never saw his castle completed. He died during the siege in 1105, leaving others to finish what he had started. The fortress that grew atop Tripoli's hill served as the anchor of the Crusader County of Tripoli for nearly two centuries, ...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/y/1/7/citadel-of-tripoli-wp/sy17-citadel-of-tripoli-the-pilgrims-fortress.mp3 0:06 2 full Citadel of Tripoli: A Sultan's Decree in Stone https://qualla.com/citadel-of-tripoli/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. The Mamluks rebuilt the citadel because they needed it. With the sultan's troops temporarily garrisoned at Krak des Chevaliers, too far away to respond quickly to coastal threats, Tripoli required its own stronghold. The fortress was restored and expanded. In 1345, an unusual doc...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/y/1/7/citadel-of-tripoli-wp/sy17-citadel-of-tripoli-a-sultans-decree-in-stone.mp3 0:06 3 full Citadel of Tripoli: Ottoman Reinvention https://qualla.com/citadel-of-tripoli/ Photo credit FemmesdedoubleCulture, CC BY-SA 4.0. When the Ottoman sultan Selim I swept through Syria and Egypt in 1516, the citadel changed hands once more. His son Suleiman the Magnificent toured the conquered territories shortly after his accession and ordered the fortress rebuilt. In the years that followed, successive Ottom...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/y/1/7/citadel-of-tripoli-wp/sy17-citadel-of-tripoli-ottoman-reinvention.mp3 0:06 4 full Citadel of Tripoli: Coins and Memory https://qualla.com/citadel-of-tripoli/ Photo credit Heretiq, CC BY-SA 2.5. The citadel now houses the North Lebanon and Akkar Museum, a small collection that traces the region's numismatic history from the Hellenic period through the Ayyubid era. The coins on display are modest in scale but vast in implication, each one a snapshot of a different regime ...

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