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architecture of crusaders ...late 12th century). Many remarkable
castles were built before and after 1200, incorporating
Byzantine and Muslim innovations in military architecture, as at
the Krak des Chevaliers or at Margat, “whose bastions seemed to
sustain the sky; only eagles and vultures could approach its
battlements”—striking witness, in so remote a place, to
Romanesque faith and power. What made you want to look up
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