The Saladin Citadel in Cairo

The Saladin Citadel in Cairo of the most luxurious castles warships built in the Middle Ages Vemoqaha strategic first class as provided by this site from the importance of the defensive 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 could provide connectivity between the castle and the city in a state of siege as they will become the last bastion of the sit-in by the state if the city fell to the enemy. 

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Nasser al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub bin Shadi bin Marwan, this is the name of Sultan Saladin (1138 - 1193 AD) who was born in Tikrit in Iraq is the founder of the Ayyubid state in Egypt and the Levant and northern Iraq and the Hijaz. 

Saladin 

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It was reported by historians about the reason for building the castle that Sultan Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub what removed the Fatimid state of Egypt and stoked about it did not turn from Dar ministry in Cairo not still afraid of the same from the Shiite Fatimid caliphs in Egypt and King fair Nur al-Din Mahmud bin Zangi Sultan al-Sham and he refuses I. Noordin that the conduct of his brother King holy sun State Turan Shah bin Ayub in year nine and sixty-five hundred to the country of Yemen to become his kingdom Tasmh of Noordin Vastoly sun State on the kingdoms of Yemen, and enough is Allah Almighty Salahuddin ordered Noordin and died in that year Fajla his air and the security part, and I'd love to make for himself a stronghold in Egypt, it was the Department of Kasserine between princes and brought them there. 

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It is said that the reason to choose a place called Castle Mountain commented that the meat in Cairo altering its color after a day and a night commented flesh of another animal in the position of the castle did not change until after two days and two nights ordered 

Then create a castle there and stayed on the architecture Prince Bahauddin Qaraqush Assadi embarking in construction and built a wall of Cairo, who Zadeh in year two and seventy-five hundred and demolish Al-Ahram kids that were in Giza towards Egypt and were many in number and transfer what he found out from the stones and built by the fence surrounding Cairo and the castle and Aqueduct Giza In order to make the fence surrounding the castle and in Cairo, Egypt, Sultan died before the end of the fence and the castle 

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It was Sultan al-Nasir Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub first thought of building a castle on a hill in the sound (572 AH / 1176 AD), where he and his minister Bahauddin Qaraqush Assadi demolished mosques 

The tombs, which were present on the sound in order to build a castle out where workers carved the rock and creating a trench artificially separated the cliffs for an increase in the voice and power of invulnerability was built in the period between (1176 until 1183)