Name: Safed old cemetery
Address: Safed old cemetery, Levant & Iraq

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Safad

The principal town of Upper Galilee on a commanding hill. The Franks built its first fortress in 495/1101-2 and later handed it to the Templars; Saladin took it in Shawwal 584/December 1187 after a six-week siege; al-Mu'azzam Isa razed the fortress in 617/1219-20, and al-Malik al-Salih Isma'il returned it to the Franks in 638/1240; under the Mamluks it became the capital of a province (mamlaka).

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