Monday, May 30, 2011

Citadel of Salah al-Din




















Citadel of Saladin in Cairo, Egypt. Built by Saladin in the period 1176 until 1183, using prisoners of Norman. He said to Muhammad Ali mosque. Was the headquarters for the rule of Egypt since the days of Saladin (1183) until the transfer of Khedive Ismail, the seat of government to Abdeen Palace, which was built for this purpose in the contract of 1860. Citadel of Salah al-Din is located in the neighborhood of the castle - the successor - has been erected on one of the hills are separated from the cliffs on the outskirts of Cairo.

The Citadel of Salah al-Din in Cairo of the most prestigious castles of warfare which was built in the Middle Ages, Muhammad Ali mosque inside a strategic first-class as provided by this site of the importance of defense because it controls the cities of Cairo and Fustat, as it constitutes a natural barrier up between the two cities as it is on this site can provide connectivity between
the castle and the city in a state of siege as they will become the last bastion of a sit-in the case if the city fell to the enemy.


Castle towering over this many, many historical events which saw the walls of different historical events through the ages Ayyubid, Mamluk and the time of the French campaign on Egypt in the year 1798, and even took over the rule of Mohammed Ali Pasha of Egypt, where he restored her prosperity and greatness. The Sultan al-Nasir Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub first thought of building a castle on the hill the sound in in 572 AH / 1176, where he and the minister Bahauddin Karakus Assadi demolition of mosques and tombs that were on the sound so that building a castle, where it is the workers carved the rock and the creation of a trench artificially separation of the cliffs on the sound increase in the vulnerability and strength.

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