Cola (castle)
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 Cola Castle ruins, 2009 |
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| Alternative name (s): | Qula, Chola, Kula | |
| Creation time : | 12th Century | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Geographical location | 32 ° 2 '14.6 " N , 34 ° 57' 12.2" E | |
| Height: | 120 m | |
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The Cola or Chola Castle (Arabic: Qula (قولة), also Kula ) is a small crusader castle in today's Israel.
location
The castle ruins are about 14 km northeast of Ramla .
history
The castle is mentioned in a document in 1181, when the Hospitaller Order acquired it and the place belonging to it from Hugo of Flanders . From then on, the order had food produced here for its hospital in Jerusalem .
Remains of a tower and a castle building have been preserved to this day.
Individual evidence
literature
- Denys Pringle: Secular Buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. To Archaeological Gazetteer. Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN 0521460107 .
Web links
Commons : Qula - collection of images, videos and audio files
