Qurfays
Minor Hospitaller fortress in Syria, destroyed in 1271.
Qurfays, a village in northwestern Syria, was a minor fortress under the Knights Hospitallers in the 13th century, known as Corveis. It was evacuated and destroyed by the Hospitallers in 1271 before the Mamluk advance, and later ceded to the Mamluks in a 1281 treaty.
Quick Facts
- Other names
- Qorfeis
- Settlement type
- Village
- Population
- 799
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