User:ThinkingTwice/project page/List of Crusader castles

This is a list of castles in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, founded or occupied during the Crusades. For crusader castles in Poland and the Baltic states, see Ordensburg.

Muslim castles built to oppose the Crusaders
This is a list of fortress specifically created to oppose the Crusaders and would not have been built if the Crusades had not been called.