Deir al-Balah (Darum)

Also known as Darum, Darom, al-Darum

Deir al-Balah — 'the monastery of the date palms' — is the site of the twelfth-century Crusader castle of Darum, built by King Amalric around 1170 on the desert road into Egypt. A four-tower quadrangular castle, it was besieged and rebuilt several times before Saladin finally destroyed it after Hattin. Almost nothing of the castle is visible today in the modern Gaza Strip town.

Coordinates: 31.4181°, 34.3511°

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