Cairo Citadel. قلعة صلاح الدين)

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or Citadel of Saladin - a fortress in Cairo, one of the attractions of the capital of Egypt. Built, presumably, in the 1176-1183 gg.Salah ad-Din set out to do from the Cairo Citadel unique city within the city, however, he did not succeed. According to the plan, from the Nile to the Citadel, covering the city from two sides, we had to go strong steny.Preemnik Salah al-Din, his nephew, Sultan al-Kamil for the first time moved to the citadel of the official residence of the head gosudarstva.V 1176 began the construction of the Citadel of Cairo - the most impregnable medieval fortress, justifying its name (Cairo in Arabic means "the victorious"). On the effectiveness of the location of the citadel is evidenced by the fact that it remained the heart of the Egyptian government until the end of the XIX century,