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Mirabel Fortress

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

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A Crusader fortress, the ruins of which were used to build a 19th-century fortified manor house. They lie over the site of ancient Aphekou Pyrgos in the modern Migdal Tzedek National Park, Israel.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/802393070

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
32.0808063, 34.9571024

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Migdal Afeq (Mirabel Fortress) Ruins (AD 1081 - AD 1999) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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Mirabel Fortress makes connections with:

Mirabel Fortress succeeds Aphekou Pyrgos (unspecified date range)

Mirabel Fortress receives connections from:

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Place type:
building, castle

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Mirabel Fortress: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/802393070> [accessed: 17 November 2025]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/802393070 |title=Places: 802393070 (Mirabel Fortress) |author=Becker, J., T. Elliott |accessdate=November 17, 2025 10:36 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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