Cafarlet

Cafarlet or Capharleth (Crusader name) or Kafr Lam (Arabic name) is an Early Muslim coastal fortress of the Roman castrum type. Today it is located inside Moshav HaBonim, Israel, on lands of the now abandoned Arab village of Kafr Lam. It was built in the 8th or 9th century, during the Umayyad or Abbasid period to serve as a ribat against Byzantine attacks, and was significantly modified and reused by the Crusaders. It is one of the few surviving ancient fortifications in Israel featuring round watchtowers, indicating the fortress' origins predate the crusader era. Most surviving ancient fortifications in the region feature rectangular watchtowers, typical of the style prevalent in Europe during the time of the crusaders.

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Cafarlet ranks #3878 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #16 of the 22 mapped in Israel. Fundado en ca. 850, más antiguo que el 96% de los monumentos datados del atlas — one of 33 atlas entries founded in the siglo IX. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.

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