Editing Toron (section)

==The castle==
The castle of Toron occupies a steep hill, in fact a Bronze Age [[Tell (archaeology)|tell]], north to the village of Tibnin, at a height of {{convert|725|m|ft}} above sea level. It is oval in shape with its outline following the contours of the tell. It once had twelve rectangular towers with one of them - to the south - having been the donjon. The castle, razed in 1266 by the Mamluks was rebuilt 500 years later in the mid-18th century by the Shiite sheikh [[Nasif al-Nassar]] during his struggle against the Ottoman rule. He used the ruins of the medieval walls as a basis for his rebuilding campaign and thus the castle today mainly appears as an Ottoman construction. The castle was then used as the home and base of the House of [[El Assaad Family|El-Assaad]], the family of Nasif.{{cn|date=July 2021}}

In 1881 it was noted that it was the residence of the local [[Governor]], and that about twenty Muslims lived there.<ref>Conder and  Kitchener, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/95/mode/1up 95]</ref>

The castle was [[Destruction of cultural heritage during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon|damaged during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon]] in late 2024, and one of the medieval walls collapsed.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Frayer |first=Lauren |date=23 December 2024 |title=What the Israel-Hezbollah war did to Lebanon's cultural heritage sites |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/12/23/nx-s1-5213230/lebanon-cultural-heritage-israel-war-hezbollah |access-date=1 January 2025 |work=NPR}}</ref>