Maraclea
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Maraclea was a small coastal Crusader town and a castle in the Levant, between Tortosa and Baniyas (Buluniyas). The modern-day location is known as Kharab Maraqiya ().
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It sits within the topics Crusader castles and Populated places disestablished in the 13th century.
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- Syria
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Maraclea was a small coastal Crusader town and a castle in the Levant, between Tortosa and Baniyas (Buluniyas). The modern-day location is known as Kharab Maraqiya ().
==History== Following the Muslim conquest of the Levant, Caliph Mu'awiya I repopulated and garrisoned the coastal cities including Maraclea. In 675/676, a Byzantine fleet assaulted Maraclea, killing the governor of Homs.
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