Port Saint Symeon
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St Symeon or Port St Symeon (
Saint Simeon Stylites
, who was buried in Antioch.
History
silting and an earthquake had rendered it unusable. The harbour of St Symeon, some fourteen kilometres to the west of Antioch, was the main harbour of Antioch. Its possession was essential for the armies of the First Crusade during the siege of Antioch and it seems that the crusaders maintained a force there for this time.[3]
In November 1097, the
Mosul after the crusaders had taken Antioch and were besieged themselves but was reconquered after the battle of Antioch on 28 June 1098.[6]
At the start of the Crusader period St Symeon was only a local port, but in the second half of the twelfth century
Baibars captured St Symeon and then went on to destroy Antioch. The city and its port never recovered.[7]
St Symeon gives its name to a Crusader style of pottery.[8]
See also
- Ras al-Bassit, the site of another port of the Principality of Antioch
References
- ^ Steven Runciman, A History of the Crusades: Volume 1, The First Crusade, Cambridge University Press, 1951, p. 216
- ^ "Tomas J. Rees, Antioch". Archived from the original on 2009-08-19. Retrieved 2009-06-28.
- ISBN 0851156614. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ Runciman, op. cit., p. 219
- ^ Runciman, op. cit., pp. 226-227. He stated that the fleet was commanded by Edgar, but Thomas Asbridge considered this unlikely, because in late 1097 he was still embroiled in a dispute over succession to the Scottish throne. Thomas Asbridge, The First Crusade, The Free Press, 2004, p. 188.
- ISBN 0851156614. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ Steven Runciman, A History of the Crusades, Volume 3, The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades, Cambridge University Press, 1955, pp. 325-326, 354-355
- ^ "Tasha Vordestrasse, The Iconography of the Wine Drinker in 'Port St Symeon' Ware from the Crusader Era, Eastern Christian Art, Vol 2, 2005, Abstract". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-11-15.