Editing Sidon (section)

===Crusader-Ayyubid period===
[[File:SidonSeaCastle.jpg|thumb|[[Sidon Sea Castle]], built by the [[Crusader states|Crusaders]] in AD 1228]]
On 4 December 1110, Sidon was captured after the [[siege of Sidon]], a decade after the [[First Crusade]], by King [[Baldwin I of Jerusalem]] and King [[Sigurd I of Norway]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=A History of the Crusades, Vol. II: The Kingdom of Jeru… |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428520.A_History_of_the_Crusades_Vol_II |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=Goodreads |language=en}}</ref> It then became the center of the [[Lordship of Sidon]], an important vassal-state of the [[Kingdom of Jerusalem]]. [[Saladin]] captured it from the Crusaders in 1187, but German Crusaders restored it to Christian control in the [[Crusade of 1197]]. It remained an important Crusader stronghold until it was destroyed by the [[Ayyubid dynasty|Ayyubids]] in 1249. In 1260, it was again destroyed by the [[Mongols]] led by [[Kitbuqa]].{{sfn|Runciman|1987|p=308}} The remains of the original walls are still visible.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sawaya |first=Gioia |date=2018-12-07 |title=Archaeology of Superpositions, as seen in Sidon's Sea Castle |url=https://hiddenarchitecture.net/archaeology-of-superpositions-as-seen-in-sidons-sea-castle/ |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=Hidden Architecture |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Marriner |first1=Nick |last2=Morhange |first2=Christophe |last3=Doumet-Serhal |first3=Claude |date=November 2006 |title=Geoarchaeology of Sidon's ancient harbours, Phoenicia |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2006.02.004 |journal=Journal of Archaeological Science |volume=33 |issue=11 |pages=1514–1535 |doi=10.1016/j.jas.2006.02.004 |bibcode=2006JArSc..33.1514M |issn=0305-4403}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Frost |first=Honor |date=March 1973 |title=The offshore island harbour at Sidon and other Phoenician sites in the light of new dating evidence |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-9270.1973.tb00492.x |journal=International Journal of Nautical Archaeology |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=75–94 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-9270.1973.tb00492.x |bibcode=1973IJNAr...2...75F |issn=1057-2414}}</ref>

During the 12th century, [[Benjamin of Tudela]] noted the presence of approximately twenty Jews, possibly families, in Sidon, which he described as a "large city."<ref name=":03" />