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Arqada (fortification): The castle of Arcadiopolis, seven days' journey from Constantinople

Artāḥ (fortification): A castle near Aleppo

al-ʿArūs (fortification): One of the fortifications of the sea in Yemen

al-ʿArūs (fortification): One of two fortresses near Samarra (the other being al-Shāh)

al-Athārib (fortification): A castle between Aleppo and Antioch

ʿAthlīth (fortification): A castle south of Haifa on the coast of Filastin, conquered by Salah al-Din in 583 AH / 1187 CE

Ātīl (fortification): A place

ʿAwādin (fortification): A fortress of Dhimār in Yemen

Awlās (fortification): A castle on the coast of Cilicia near Tarsus

Awral (fortification): A castle in al-Yamama

Aznāw (fortification): A castle near Hamadhan

Azn (fortification): A place

ʿAzzān Khabt (fortification): A castle near Taʿizz in Yemen

Babylon (fortification): A pre-Islamic castle in Egypt, near Fusṭāṭ

Bahasnā (fortification): A castle near Marʿash and Samosata

Baka (fortification): fortress in Cilicia

Bāndus (fortification): A Byzantine castle north of Constantinople

Barām (fortification): A castle in Arabia

Bardzr-Berd (fortification): A place

Barʿ (fortification): A castle of Dhimār in Yemen

Barʿiyya (fortification): stronghold of Mesopotamia

Barjama (fortification): A castle of the Romans in the poetry of Jarir

Bātikrū (fortification): A castle on the Jayhun river

Bayt ʿIzz (fortification): A castle in Yemen

Bazda (fortification): A castle six farsakhs from Nasaf

Bikisrāʾīl (fortification): A castle near Hims and Jabala

Bina (fortification): A fortress in al-Andalus

black castle (fortification): A castle in Cilicia on the road to al-Maṣṣīṣa

Blichayn (fortification): A place

BʾRWQṬH (fortification): A castle in the kleisoura of Charsianon

BṬNH (fortification): The seat of the Byzantine strategos of Opsikion

Bughrās (fortification): "castle near Antioch, also spelled "Baghrās""

Bukur (fortification): A castle in Yemen, near Ṣanʿāʾ and Ẓafr

Būlā (fortification): fortress on the banks of the Arsanias

al-Būnt (fortification): A fortification in al-Andalus

Burj al-Raṣāṣ (fortification): A castle between Aleppo and Antioch

al-Buttam (fortification): A castle in the Farghana region

castle of Abū Bak’har (fortification): A place

castle of Maslama b. ʿAbd al-Malik (fortification): A place

castle of Ptolemy (fortification): A castle between Jerusalem and Jericho reportedly built by Ptolemy, the son of Abubus

castle of St. Paul (fortification): A castle in Cilicia near al-Maṣṣīṣa

Chanderi (fortification): a fortress in India

Chastel Blanc (fortification): A crusader castle near Krac des Chevaliers and the coast (modern Burj Safita)

Constantinople (fortification): walls of,

Crac des Chevaliers (fortification): fortress in Syria

Cumbethfor (fortification): A castle of the Teutonic Knights in Cilicia

Darak (fortification): A castle near Ṭūs or Quhistān

Dhakwān (fortification): "(Coin, fortress in Spain)"

Diadion (fortification): name uncertain

Ḍibāb (fortification): A castle in or near Kufa

al-Dīkdān (fortification): A large fortress on the coast near Hurmuz Island

Dok (fortification): A fortress near Jericho where Ptolemy the son of Abubus killed Simon Maccabeus

al-Dumluwa (fortification): A castle in Yemen

Dunbulā (fortification): A castle on the edge of Shahrastān in Fārs

al-Durzūqiyya (fortification): a fortified building which Anushirvan built in Persian Armenia

DZBZ (fortification): The citadel of the city Sābūr Khwāst

Faʿan (fortification): A castle in Yemen

Faḥṣ al-Ujum (fortification): A castle in Ifriqiyya

fort of Barṣīṣ (fortification): "in Libya"

Gandzē (fortification): A place

Gargarūm (fortification): a Byzantine fortress captured by Maslama b. ʿAbd al-Malik in 92 AH/711 CE

Gavazan (fortification): A place

Ghābir (fortification): A fortress in Yemen

Ghariyyān (fortification): A castle in Yemen on mount Shaṭab

Ghayyāna (fortification): A castle in al-Andalus

Ghudar (fortification): A place

Ghumdān (fortification): A castle between Ṣanʿāʾ and Ṭīwa

al-Ghurābī (fortification): A castle in Yemen

Gūbīdārā (fortification): fortress of Cilicia

Gūbrīn (fortification): fortress near Kyrrhos

al-Ḥadbāʾ (fortification): "name of the citadel of al-Mawṣil"

al-Ḥadda (fortification): A castle in Yemen

Hajar (fortification): A fortress of Mikhlaf Mazan

Hakr (fortification): A foretress in Yemen near Dhimār

al-Ḥamrāʾ (fortification): Near Jerusalem

Ḥaqīl (fortification): A fort in Yemen

Ḥārim (fortification): A castle in northwestern Syria

Harkātū (fortification): (Arcot) A fort on the Ma`bar coast

al-Hattākh (fortification): stronghold near Āmid

Ḥayfā (fortification): A castle on the Mediterranean coast, near Yafa

Herodium (fortification): A castle on a hill 12 km south of Jerusalem

Hirrān (fortification): A castle of Dhimār in Yemen

Ḥiṣn Bint Nuʿm (fortification): A castle in Yemen

Ḥiṣn Dhī l-Qarnayn (fortification): fortress of Ṭūr ʿAbdīn

Ḥiṣn ʿDYS (fortification): A fortress between Manbij and Bālis

Ḥiṣn al-Mankab (fortification): A castle in al-Andalus near Malaga

Ḥiṣn Qulayra (fortification): A castle in al-Andalus near Valencia

Ḥiṣn al-Ward (fortification): In Wasaṭ in al-Yamāma

HNDH (fortification): A castle in Yemen

al-ḤQʾLYH (fortification): A castle in Yemen

Ḥulba (fortification): A castle in the mountain Bura` in the region of Zabid in Yemen

Ḥuraym (fortification): A castle near Ta`izz in Yemen

Ḥūr ʿEvar (fortification): fortress in Ṭūr ʿAbdīn

Ḥuwwārīn (fortification): A castle near Ḥimṣ

al-ʿImādiyya (fortification): A place

Iqlībiya (fortification): A fortress in Ifriqiyya

Īraj (fortification): A castle in Fars

al-Iskandarūna (fortification): A castle between Tyre and Acre

Jaʿbar (fortification): A castle on the Euphrates between Balis and al-Raqqa

al-Jaʿfarī (fortification): A castle built by al-Mutawakkil near Samarra

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