As a result the capital of the district was then moved to Tall Kalakh. Renewed interest in Crusader castles in the 19th century led to the investigation of Krak des Chevaliers, and architectural plans were drawn up. In the late 19th or early 20th century a settlement had been created within the castle, causing damage to its fabric. The 500 inhabitants were moved in 1933 and the castle was given over to the French Alawite State, which carried out a program of clearing and restoration. When Syria declared independence in 1946, it assumed control. Today, a village called al-Husn exists around the castle and has a population of nearly 9,000. Krak des Chevaliers is located approximately west of the city of Homs, close to the border of Lebanon, and is administratively part of the Homs Governorate. Since 2006, the castles of Krak des Chevaliers and Qal'at Salah El-Din have been recognised by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites. It was partially damaged in the Syrian civil war from shelling and recaptured by the Syrian government forces in 2014. Since then, reconstruction and conservation work on the site had begun. Reports by the UNESCO and the Syrian government on the state of the site are produced yearly. The modern Arabic word for a castle is "Kalaa" (), but Krak des Chevaliers is known as a ""Hisn"" (), or "fort". This derives from the name of an earlier fortification on the same site called "Ḥoṣn al-Akrād" (), meaning "fort of the Kurds". It was called by the Franks (i.e. Crusaders) and then by a confusion with "karak" (fortress), . "Crat" was probably the French version of "Akrād", the word for Kurds. Note that historically, Arabic speakers referred to Crusaders inaccurately as "Franks" and "Latins" to distinguish them from Christian Byzantines as the Crusaders called local Muslims "Saracens." The actual historical Franks divided their empire in 843 and at no point invaded Asia. After the Knights Hospitaller took control of the castle, it became known as ; according to Guillaume Rey's 1871 work, it was designated by chroniclers of the Crusaders as the (alternatively spelt ), where "Chevaliers" is French for "Knight" (c.f. the English word cavalry).