10/16/2012

Aleppo Castle

Aleppo Citadel 02 - Bastion.jpg
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.
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Jeita Grotto

Jeita,Grotto,مغارة,جعيتا
Jeita Grotto is located in the Dog River Valley, about 20 kilometers north of Beirut
The Lebanese Grotto jewel (pearl) Lebanese tourism,

They constitute an important station to attract tourists throughout the year.

It is one of the finest natural artifacts in the Middle

It is a narrow coral cavities
,
The lounges and structures and Nantha nature rooms,
And it leaked water limestone heights of the mountains of Lebanon

To form with the passage of time a world of domes and sculptures

The strange shapes and configurations that the tongue can not be described.

Jeita Grotto consists of two layers,

Class or upper cave (dry) and Amoarhambassly (water)
Supreme cave dry
Supreme cave opened in January 1969, after it was discovered in 1958
And qualify for the visit by the engineer and artist and sculptor Ghassan Clinic
This class is characterized from the cave that it gives visitors fun walking
At a distance of 750 meters in length, which up to 2200 meters
After crossing the tunnel with a length of about 120 meters
Overlooks the lanes after the great cellars rise
Distributed depressions in addition to stalagmites and stalactites and limestone columns and related forms of the impressive


Lower cave (water)
 Discovered back to the year 1836, the American missionary William Thomson,
It is said that after the incursion in within about 50 meters
After that shot from a hunting rifle he was carrying,
And realized through the echo caused by sound-caliber firearm,
The cave extension Gouveia up to 6200 meters of great importance.


Pioneers
And a few years after the incident, two of the architects decided to Beirut Water Works Company, two «. C. Maxwell 'and' e. C. Huxley, and two of their friends, and their pastor 'Daniel Plus' director Syrian Evangelical College at the time, which later became the American University in Beirut, he took the team made two trips expeditions inside the cave where the penetration up to a distance of about 800 meters in 1873.1060 meters the following year. Team members named one giant stalagmites has successively discovered by history pioneers foreigners and Lebanese adventurers and is located about 625 meters from the entrance to the cave «column Maxwell» the name of the team leader. In position located about 200 meters from the first, called the 'gods Complex', wrote their names and the date of their exploration on a sheet of paper and made it in a bottle and put the bottle on top of another bullish. With the passage of time cost water bottle lime rind Vagmt stamped forever and made it part of the upside, which is still in place today. Expeditions and rolled inside the cave, starting in 1892 in order to identify the underground tunnel network, which consists of better and more accurate so that the total length of tunnels that could be explored until 1940 approximately 1750 meters. And all who have these explorations at the time of nationalities English, American and French.

Lebanese explorers
But stages of exploring Grotto has undergone a radical transformation from the forties of the twentieth century until today. Has passed the torch to generations of explorers of the Lebanese, especially members of the «Lebanese Club for cave exploration, founded in 1951 first Lebanese prospector Lionel surprise. He has Prospectors Lebanese since then, and through various associations, study site was characterized by systematic study, accuracy and methodology, and took deep Amoartin Almcetkhevcan increasing day after day until Pat intensive along the corridor up to the borders of nine kilometers. The flow of the lower cave River Jovi is submerged part of the headwaters of the dog, a spring that feeds Beirut with drinking water. And landed on the lower cave by small boats transported visitor through water body curvy cut silence the roar of groundwater and is surrounded by columns of stalagmites and stalactites that carved the nature over millions of years to a distance of approximately 500 meters out of 6200 meters as it closed to visitors when rising water in winter. And stands at the entrance to the cave (guard time) which is the largest carved 6 meters high and 60 cm and weighing 75 tons. And the temperature stays within Amoartin year-round constant 16 degrees Celsius in the lower cave and 22 degrees in higher education. Ever cave reopened in July 1995 after 20 years on the forced closure as a result of the civil war (1975 to 1990). And signed the Lebanese Ministry of Tourism-year contract after that 27 years ago, including 13 years with the company invested Mabas to rehabilitate Grotto.
Visitors and the environment
The province's environment cave and its surroundings are a top concern administration annex to remain rock grotto healthy and free from any impurities, because this natural environment is very sensitive, and any defect can cause damage to the rocks limestone, and lose their beauty and can lead to a change in colors, so it was imposing rules strict in order to preserve its beauty through the use of lighting system is harmless, and prevent the introduction of food or drinks and even a photo op out of fear that grows on the limestone layer 'algae' or 'twinge' enters the pores soft and change color. Number of tourists in Lebanon last year's nearly 1.3 million, according to statistics of the Ministry of Tourism of Lebanon. The director of the investing company to Jeita Grotto Nabil Haddad that the number of visitors to the cave in 2004 reached 361 thousand and 968 people, an increase of 30 percent from the year 2003 that the number of visitors which 275 440. The works in the cave a team of 150 employees in the summer, and that number drops to 75 employees in the winter.
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10/11/2012

Pyramids of Giza

Pyramids of Giza
 

Pyramids of Giza

Pyramids of Giza or the pyramids of Egypt is located on the Giza Plateau in Giza on the west bank of the Nile. Built by about 25 centuries BC, between 2480 and 2550 BC. They include the three pyramids of Cheops, Chephren and Menkaure.

And the Pyramids are the tombs of ownership of each of which bears the name of the king who was buried where builders, and the hierarchical structure here is the stage of the development of cemeteries in the architecture of ancient Egypt. It started small crater turned to the underground chamber and then to several rooms topped by a terrace. And then evolved to take the form of pyramid at the hands Eng Aamahotb Minister pharaoh Djoser of the Third Dynasty. This was followed by two attempts of King Sneferu, founder of the Fourth Dynasty to build a full hierarchical form. But back pyramids is a peaceful form. And are located in Dahshur one oblate Qaeda and the other took a smaller form nearly half the size of the first. The Engineer Hmeono able engineer of King Khufu to perform hierarchical ideal and the construction of the pyramid of Cheops in Giza, on an area of ​​13 acres and was followed by a pyramid of Khafre and Menkaure.




Sphinx
 Sphinx

Many people believe that the greatness of the pyramid lies in a constructive way, in fact, to talk this aspect of health, فالهرم biggest example is Mount industrial weighs six million five hundred thousand tons, and is composed of stones each weighing twelve tons, almost these stones Paving and court settings to end half a millimeter, and this already deserves full admiration for the ancient Egyptian civilization. But it much larger, فالهرم is one of the greatest puzzles faced since the beginning of human civilization. Many have claimed that just luxurious tomb of the king (Cheops), but the current era scientists believe that this view is ironic, has been building the Great Pyramid for a higher purpose and is much greater than that. The evidence for that is those facts amazing enjoyed by this great edifice which has been collected Charles Smith in the famous book (our heritage at the Great Pyramid) in 1864, Rising Pyramid multiplied billion equals 14,967,000 miles, the distance between the Earth and the sun, and orbit that passes through the center pyramid divides continents of the world into two equal halves completely, and that the basis of the pyramid divided by twice the height gives us a fixed number famous circuit (3.14) contained in calculators. And the four corners of the pyramid is heading to the four original trends in accuracy so amazing that some scientists Oharoayoma to the presence of a small angle deviation from the original actors, but after the discovery of modern electronic devices to measure proved to be the corners of the pyramid is more correct and accurate.


A map of the Pyramids of Giza complex
map
As for the pyramid of Pharaoh Kora famous Bmenkera, scientists have noted that it contains a small circular gap does not exceed 20 cm in diameter. The archaeologists managed to learn the secret of the existence of such a gap after noticing very accurate, as it turns out that the sun's rays enter through that gap only one day a year to the tomb of the pharaoh of Kora completely. And even odder that this day and agree Pharaoh's birthday
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Arab Tower


Arab Tower
UNITED, ARAB, EMIRATES, Arab, TOWER
Arab Tower "Burj Al Arab" is one of the finest hotels in the world, located in Dubai, features a beautiful view in the tourist area of Jumeirah, unlike upscale decor.

Hotel is established on an artificial island about a hundred meters from the beach in Dubai, United Arab Emirates height decreases sixty meters all building Embaiar Stit in New York City in the United States, to compete Baaloh towering tallest buildings in the world, and this hotel is of the boldest projects initiated adopting Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum

The estimated cost of building the Burj Al Arab U.S. $ 650 million.

Was estimated in 2006 at the World Tourism Awards as the leading hotel, has been designed this hotel component Society of the wings to resemble a block sail shave up 321 meters overlooking the coast of Dubai and Aosrh. At night gives a view of the water unforgettable and enduring system colorful dancer from forms of stereoscopic wounds. This hotel reflects the extraordinary finest the world can offer.

Driver, driving Rolls Royce and log on to your suite your privacy and private reception desk on every floor and a band of retainers trained at the highest level providing care and care over the past four and twenty hours, all this only to ensure personalized service throughout your stay.
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