Cave de Sueth

Cave de Sueth (medieval French name; in modern French: Cave de Suète[1]), known from medieval Latin sources as Cava de Suet, as Habis Jaldak in medieval Arabic and as 'Ain al-Habis (Arabic: عين الحبيس, romanizedSpring of the Hermit's retreat)[2] in modern Arabic, was a 12th-century cave castle built into the southern cliffs of the Yarmouk River gorge in modern-day Jordan,[3] across from the southern foothills of the Golan Heights.[4] It was located at the edge of the Terre de Suète[1] region (al-Sawad, "the black" in Arabic).[2]

  1. ^ a b Pringle (2006), p. 233
  2. ^ a b Nicolle (1988), p. 113
  3. ^ burgenwelt.org
  4. ^ Devais (2013)

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