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What Crusader fortress in modern Syria was the largest Hospitaller stronghold in the Holy Land?
Krak des Chevaliers, in modern western Syria, was held by the Hospitallers from 1142 until 1271 when it finally fell to the Mamluk Sultan Baybars after a one-month siege. It is widely considered the best-preserved Crusader castle anywhere and is a UNESCO World Heritage site. T. E. Lawrence wrote his Oxford undergraduate thesis on it in 1909.
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The Knights Hospitaller The Knights Hospitaller were a medieval Catholic military religious order founded in Jerusalem around 1099 to provide medical care to pilgrims. They became a major military force during the Crusades, ruled Rhodes (1310–1522) and Malta (1530–1798), and survive today as a sovereign Catholic chivalric order.
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