The Scandelion Castle was built by the Crusaders in what is today South Lebanon in 1116,[1] during the reign of Baldwin I of Jerusalem.
Other sources indicate that they took the town known in medieval Arabic as Iskandarouna (Iskandaruna), called by the Crusaders Scandelion[2][better source needed] or Scandalion / Scandalium[3], in 1124.
[2] It became a strategic high ground, used to defend Tyre.
[2] The site is today at the Lebanese village of Shamaa.
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