Yavne (Ibelin)

Also known as Ibelin, Ybelin, Gibelim, Yavne

Yavne — known to the Crusaders as Ibelin — was one of the four castles thrown up around Ascalon in the 1140s and became the seat of the powerful Ibelin family. William of Tyre called the twelfth-century castle 'very strongly built with deep foundations and four towers'. The original quadriburgium is mostly gone, but its hilltop in the centre of modern Yavne still preserves traces of the medieval fortification.

Coordinates: 31.8781°, 34.7389°

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