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Constructed in Egypt, many military castles to be Egypt fort and protect it from invaders, and Saladin Citadel in Cairo and Alexandria Bey witness to the greatness of the Egyptian man.

Salah al-den al-ayobi's castle

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- Cairo Citadel is located in the castle district of Cairo / Egypt

- Started to built by Sultan al-Nasir Salah al-Din from (572 AH --1 176 AD) to (604 AH --1 208 AD), but he did not complete it in his life, where he took Saladin ruled Egypt from one year (1171 AD-to-1193 AD) but full and completed by Sultan bin fair was the first inhabited is full of Sultan Dara and taken to the king, and remained so until the reign of Muhammad Ali.

- It has been erected on top of the cliffs in the position he was known air dome on the outskirts of the city of Cairo.

- The Saladin demolished some small-Ahram in Giza, and used the stones to build the castle and the fence around Cairo, and used a family of the Franks in the building, where his minister Bahauddin Karakus Assadi demolition of mosques and tombs that were present on the sound so that the construction of the castle, where it is the workers carved the rock.

- Salahuddin, digging wells in the castle draws, including the army and the inhabitants of the castle if prevent water them when the siege. And I am impressed by what has been because of the work of the well carved in the rock depth of 90 meters from the ground level of the castle, and this requires a great effort at the time.

- Is the Citadel of Saladin Ayoubi in Cairo of the most prestigious military castles built in the Middle Ages strategic Vemoqaha first class offering this site from a defensive important because it controls the cities of Cairo and Fustat.

- It is also a natural barrier between the two cities as high as that this site can provide communication between the castle and town in the state of siege as it will become the last bastion of a sit-in in case if the city fell to the enemy.

- And on the west side of the castle, there is the father runway and writing it refers to the construction of this castle, and text

*In the name of of Allah the Merciful *

"Maulana King Nasser Salah world and religion, Abu Muzaffar Yusuf ibn Ayyub Mohi ordered the establishment of this castle impressive, neighboring Cairo guarded collected useful and improvement and capacity Ali resorted to under his reign and heavily guarded, the State of the faithful in the eyes of his brother and Crown Prince, King fair Sayf al-Din Abu Bakr Mohammed Khalil faithful, at the hands of the Emir of his kingdom, and a certain state, son of Abdullah Karakus Royal Nazarene in seventy-nine and five hundred "

- And when he took Muhammad Ali Pasha, the referee has done renovations to the castle where he returned to Haazdharha greatness and the establishment of facilities where mosques, palaces and fortifications added to Muhammad Ali mosque.

- The castle was built on a hill overlooking Cairo symbol and the seat of the ruler of Egypt for centuries since the time of Saladin years

(1183 AD) until the transfer of Khedive Ismail government headquarters to Abdeen Palace, which was built for this purpose in the contract (1860 AD)

- Cairo Citadel saw a famous massacre which concludes Mohammed Ali, called the founder of modern Egypt from the Mamluks leaders in 1811

- Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities announced to find the longest and largest crypt in the Citadel of Saladin by doing the completion of the sewage project in the castle dating back to the Mamluk era.

- Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass said that the basement discovered "Ablaq up between the palace, which is considered the largest of the remaining palaces from the Mamluk era and side mansions that have been constructed in the era of Sultan al-Nasir Mohammed bin Kalawoon."

- The Nasser built Qasralobelk in his third reign as he took office boy in 1293 AD for a year was isolated after to take a second to power in 1298, but the kingdoms re isolated in 1308 before returning to power for the third time in 1309 to continue to rule Egypt until the year 1341 .

- Director General of the Gaza Alatharalasalamah and Coptic in the Council Abdullah described the entire corridor as a big "room for Knight riding a horse and with a length of 150 meters ends display meter and a half."

- For his part, the castle Mustafa Hassan, the director pointed out that "the crypt is located beneath the surface of the Earth at a rate of between three meters high and seven meters in line with the site primarily by the castle and the different altitudes above the plateau constructed."

- "I do not know whether this basement within the maps developed by the French campaign of the castle, some of which indicates the presence of lanes under the castle, including what he described's 14 tankers to store water scientists became known for the Supreme Council and the largest tank Kikhya that is sufficient need ten thousand people from water for more than a year.

- Hassan, likely to be "backfill operations carried out by Muhammad Ali Pasha in the castle for the construction of modern buildings to be responsible for the destruction of a number of mazes that have not disclosed yet does not know much about it."

- Referred to the Nasser bin Kalawoon who has seen his country in unprecedented prosperity has constructed many of the structures inside the castle and outside most notably his school and his group in Moez Street to the religion of Allah Fatimid which is one of the most prominent features of Islamic architecture in Fatimid Cairo.

- Supreme Council of Antiquities said in a statement that the vestibule, which dates back to King al-Nasir Muhammad era was covered with a vault Brmela shape and is located in a region stretching from the Palace Ablaq side and palaces space "and is one of the main corridors of the Citadel of Saladin Ayoubi, one of the most important Islamic monuments in Egypt." proceeded in Salahuddin built in 1176 AD.

- The castle was built on a hill overlooking Cairo symbol and the seat of the ruler of Egypt for centuries and saw a famous massacre which concludes Mohammed Ali, called the founder of modern Egypt from the Mamluks leaders in 1811 AD. The sequence of installations where mosques, palaces and fortifications with a succession of kings and sultans.

- The statement added that the corridor with a width of 150 cm and the bottom of it is carved into the rock.

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