Aleppo Castle

Castle,of,Aleppo,Syria,قلعة,حلب,سوريا

Citadel of Aleppo Castle is Syria located in the city of Aleppo in northern Syria, characterized castle magnitude and one of the largest castles in the world and dates back castle to ancient times, and sits castle on a hill in the center of the city of Aleppo and rise of the castle majestic scenery is by stairs Omadrj huge passes through the gate Mrtfah in the center and built on arches ranging in height up to the main gate of the castle.

== Description Castle == castle is surrounded within a semi-circular and the number of towers belonging to different civilizations, inside the castle towering find us an integrated city buildings, mosques and halls, stores and arenas, theater, shops and a lot of effects, has me the castle during the reign of Sultan Malik al-Zahir Ghazi Ben Salah religion, main gate فأقيمت and some of the facilities inside the castle.

Consists entrance to the castle basic building huge author of doors and corridors and halls of the defense and ammunition, and within buildings at the top of this building a large hall is the throne room, which is decorated encountered motifs stone wonderful, there are a lot of buildings and rooms, halls and corridors and the effects of many inside the castle. In rectangular towers many windows, including large and small These windows overlook the most beautiful view in the famous old Aleppo souks thatched, حاراتها, churches and mosques and ancient gates and homes.

Citadel of Aleppo is one of the most beautiful and excelled and largest castles and a history of events was out and the base for many of the kings and rulers and leaders witnessed the most important events in the Middle of the era of the Aramean through many civilizations and to the Islamic era.

Castle,of,Aleppo,Syria,قلعة,حلب,سوريا

Castle Aleppo in the center of the old city on a hill in the form of alarming cone base bottom dimensions (550 m * 350 m) and the base of the upper, which sits upon the castle of (375 m * 273 m) high castle about 50 meters from the level of the city, a fortified wall circular containing six towers overseeing the slope bumpy brown the towers relate the castle by the catacombs in the bottom trench surrounded Paltel from all sides with a width of about 30 m and a depth of about 22 m was the foot of the hill in the past coated and مرصوفا stones huge but not leaving only section adjacent to the gate of the main distinguishes castle main entrance is a bridge Bold Italic with degrees beyond the ditch and carried on a series of arches stone number eight in tip outer small tower while at the other end of the bridge and adjacent to the castle it facing Tower and large is a main gate that leads into the castle to castle seven armored doors and covered with iron to resist fire and blows attackers.

Inside the castle there Jaamaan Okdmanma is collector Abraham and built by Nur ad-Din in 1162 AD over the ruins of a Byzantine church The Great Mosque was built by Zahir Ghazi bin Saladin in (1210) AD and contains minaret square height (20) meters in the northern part of the castle and to the east of the Grand Mosque located Ibrahim Pasha barracks constructed of stones extracted from the foot of the hill.

In the center of Castle Royal Palace, which dates back to the thirteenth century, in addition to a large bathroom a ten-room pass the pipe hot and cold water is made of pottery and there are also tanks to store water and several wells with a depth of some (60) meters have been used wells hidden Xradeb. Also there is inside the castle set of halls with multiple uses, some with defensive in nature, such as those overlooking the main entrance hall to the throne back to the Mamluk era (the fifteenth century and XVI) and the Great Hall located below the castle is accessible by staircase has been named (imprisonment blood) as There are other halls were used as warehouses.

The successive Aleppo and castle many events and passed out the nations and peoples of different because of its important point convergence convoys mobile Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean in the sixteenth century BC including the Hittites to the empire, occupied Thutmose III in 1457 BC and annexed to Assyria in 738 BC.

Prior to becoming Aleppo Citadel fortress was in the reign of Alexander the Great is a camp for the soldiers of one of its commanders In the Roman and Byzantine era was the site of great importance and added to many of the facilities.

Muslim Arabs income year (636) AD and became a center of the state Hamdania at the end of the tenth century AD Voloa great attention Castle where they built the wall and fortifications

Seljuks made some reforms, and in reign Zeinkyin in the second century AD and at the hands of Nur ad-Din was renovating dilapidated fence.

In 1183 AD the castle underwent Saladin and appointed his son Zahir Ghazi and automatically upon reaching in his heyday and completed all its installations and fortifications then exposed the castle of the damage inflicted by the Mongol Hulagu and his army in the year 1260 AD.

Rebuilt at the end of the Mamluk period and the beginning of the Ottoman Empire before the intervention in isolation and neglect until the mid-twentieth century.