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200m, which means that the crusading town covered an area of approximately 5.5 ha 42'
Compared to other crusader towns listed in a table that Denys Pringle produced [Table 3], Gibelet
was indeed one of the smallest towns in the crusader states, smaller even than Banyas and only
slightly larger than Arsuf. Perhaps its small size has contributed to scholars' lack of interest in
crusader Gibelet. When was crusader Gibelet built and how much had the Embriaci contributed to
its layout?
Because only limited excavations were carried out in medieval Gibelet, these questions
are difficult to answer. According to Enlart, because of the great damage caused by an earthquake
in 29 June 1170, most of what remains from the crusading period therefore originated from the
period subsequent to it. 422 The church of St John, for example, was constructed according to
Dunand around 12 15,423
but Enlart was of the opinion that the church was first constructed
approximately one hundred years earlier, an opinion supported by Folda 424
Table 3: The areas enclosed by town walls
Town
Jerusalem
Acre
Ascalon
Tyre
Beirut
Sidon
Caesarea
Atlit
Banyas
Jaffa
Arsuf
Area enclosed in ha.
86
51.5