Editing Toron (section)

{{Short description|Crusader castle in Lebanon}}
{{Infobox country
|native_name = 
|conventional_long_name = Lordship of Toron
|common_name = Toron
|era         = High Middle Ages
|status      = Vassal of [[Kingdom of Jerusalem]]
|image_flag  = 
|image_coat  = 
|image_map   = 1187 Lordship of Toron.svg
|image_map_caption = Lordship of Toron in 1187
|capital           = Toron
|common_languages  = [[Latin]], [[Old French]], [[Italian language|Italian]] (also [[Arabic language|Arabic]] and [[Greek language|Greek]])
|religion          = [[Roman Catholicism]], [[Eastern Catholicism]], [[Greek Orthodoxy]], [[Syriac Orthodoxy]], [[Islam]], [[Judaism]]
|government_type   = [[Feudalism|Feudal monarchy]]
|leader1           = [[Godfrey of Bouillon]]
|year_leader1      = c.1100
|leader2           = [[Hugh I of Jaffa]]
|year_leader2      = 1110
|legislature       = 
}}
[[File:37.Kalat-Tibnin (le chateau Toron des Croises).jpg|thumb|1857 sketch of ''Kalat Tibnin'' by  [[Charles William Meredith van de Velde|van de Velde]]]]
[[Image:Tebnine11.jpg|thumb|Crusader castle in the village of Tebnine]]  
[[Image:View from the Toron castle, Lebanon.jpg|thumb|View from the Toron castle]]

'''Toron''', now [[Tebnine|Tibnin or Tebnine]] in [[southern Lebanon]], was a major [[Crusade]]r [[castle]], built in the [[Lebanon]] mountains on the road from [[Tyre (Lebanon)|Tyre]] to [[Damascus]]. The castle was the centre of the Lordship of Toron, a seigneury within the [[Kingdom of Jerusalem]], actually a [[vavasour|rear-vassalage]] of the [[Principality of Galilee]].