This castle is located at the end of the most western island of Pharos of Alexandria. And built in place of the ancient lighthouse of Alexandria which was destroyed 702 years of e after the devastating earthquake that occurred in the era of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun. Sultan Ashraf began Aboul-Nasr Qaitbai building the fortress in the year 882 AH and ended 884 years of building . The reason for his interest in Alexandria many direct threats to Egypt by the Ottoman Empire, which threatened the entire Arab region.
Description of castle:
These take the form of the castle square with an area of 150 m * 130 m, surrounded by sea on three sides. It contains the castle walls and the main tower. The walls are divided into an internal wall and the other external. Valsor procedure includes barracks and arms depots personnel. The outer wall of the castle contains the bodies of four defensive towers rise to the level of the wall, except the eastern wall on the narrow openings include defensive soldiers. And take the main tower in the inner castle form a large square format Dilaha the length of 30 meters and a height of 17 meters and consists of three floors of the castle and in the corners of the tower there are four semi-circular towers from the top end with a prominent balcony openings to throw arrows at two levels and is the first floor of the mosque.
The second floor contains the corridors and rooms and internal halls. The large third floor room (the seat of Sultan Qait Bay) to see sitting on the ships of Alexandria on the march covered the basement and a cross in the floor of the furnace for the preparation of bread made from wheat land as well as the mill for grinding grain for the soldiers living in the castle. The new Sultan Algori to take stock of the castle and its garrison of the fortress has been neglected in the Ottoman occupation of Egypt. Fort Qaitbay established the fortress of King Sultan Ashraf Abu-Nasr Qaitbai Mahmoudi year 882 AH / 1477 place of the old beacon of Alexandria at the eastern tip of the island of Pharos at the end of the State of the Mamelukes, which is a separate building 60 meters long, and 50-meter wide and 4.5 meters thick walls.
As Qaitbai Sultan visited the city of Alexandria in 882 AH 1477 went to the site of the old and the Al-Manar is to build on the basis of the old tower Because Qaitbai Alexandria Castle is one of the most important forts on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea has been paid by the sultans and the rulers of Egypt over the historical find in the Mamluk sultan to take stock of Algori paid much attention to this castle and its garrison increased strength and shipment of weapons and equipment, and the Ottomans occupied Egypt used the fortress Ahamithm place for the preservation and watched and made by the communities of infantry soldiers, cavalry, artillery, and the various garrisons to defend it and then the defense of Egypt's gate to the northern coast and weakened the Ottoman Empire began to lose the castle and defensive strategic importance due to the weakness of its garrison, it is then able to the French campaign in Egypt led by Napoleon Bonaparte seized and the city of Alexandria in 1798 which led to the seizure, which took over the rest of Egypt, to take over the rule of Mohamed Ali Pasha of Egypt and the work of fortifying the coasts of Egypt, particularly the North and so the renewal of the walls of the castle and the addition of some of the work to suit the development of defense of the nineteenth century AD, was the strengthening of walls and the renewal of buildings and to provide them with a gun port in addition to the construction of several forts and Ataiwabi deployed along the northern coast of Egypt. Since the revolution, Ahmed Orabi in 1882 and the results of which were hit the city of Alexandria on July 11 in the year 1882 and then the English occupation of Egypt had been vandalized and a castle Qaitbai cracks, the castle has been on this case until the Commission for the Conservation of Antiquities Arab Year 1904 the work of many of the reforms and carry out a project for the renovation work on the basis of studies carried out by the French scholars and published in a book described Egypt as well as by travelers Cassius in his book the year 1799.
Description of castle:
These take the form of the castle square with an area of 150 m * 130 m, surrounded by sea on three sides. It contains the castle walls and the main tower. The walls are divided into an internal wall and the other external. Valsor procedure includes barracks and arms depots personnel. The outer wall of the castle contains the bodies of four defensive towers rise to the level of the wall, except the eastern wall on the narrow openings include defensive soldiers. And take the main tower in the inner castle form a large square format Dilaha the length of 30 meters and a height of 17 meters and consists of three floors of the castle and in the corners of the tower there are four semi-circular towers from the top end with a prominent balcony openings to throw arrows at two levels and is the first floor of the mosque.
The second floor contains the corridors and rooms and internal halls. The large third floor room (the seat of Sultan Qait Bay) to see sitting on the ships of Alexandria on the march covered the basement and a cross in the floor of the furnace for the preparation of bread made from wheat land as well as the mill for grinding grain for the soldiers living in the castle. The new Sultan Algori to take stock of the castle and its garrison of the fortress has been neglected in the Ottoman occupation of Egypt. Fort Qaitbay established the fortress of King Sultan Ashraf Abu-Nasr Qaitbai Mahmoudi year 882 AH / 1477 place of the old beacon of Alexandria at the eastern tip of the island of Pharos at the end of the State of the Mamelukes, which is a separate building 60 meters long, and 50-meter wide and 4.5 meters thick walls.
As Qaitbai Sultan visited the city of Alexandria in 882 AH 1477 went to the site of the old and the Al-Manar is to build on the basis of the old tower Because Qaitbai Alexandria Castle is one of the most important forts on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea has been paid by the sultans and the rulers of Egypt over the historical find in the Mamluk sultan to take stock of Algori paid much attention to this castle and its garrison increased strength and shipment of weapons and equipment, and the Ottomans occupied Egypt used the fortress Ahamithm place for the preservation and watched and made by the communities of infantry soldiers, cavalry, artillery, and the various garrisons to defend it and then the defense of Egypt's gate to the northern coast and weakened the Ottoman Empire began to lose the castle and defensive strategic importance due to the weakness of its garrison, it is then able to the French campaign in Egypt led by Napoleon Bonaparte seized and the city of Alexandria in 1798 which led to the seizure, which took over the rest of Egypt, to take over the rule of Mohamed Ali Pasha of Egypt and the work of fortifying the coasts of Egypt, particularly the North and so the renewal of the walls of the castle and the addition of some of the work to suit the development of defense of the nineteenth century AD, was the strengthening of walls and the renewal of buildings and to provide them with a gun port in addition to the construction of several forts and Ataiwabi deployed along the northern coast of Egypt. Since the revolution, Ahmed Orabi in 1882 and the results of which were hit the city of Alexandria on July 11 in the year 1882 and then the English occupation of Egypt had been vandalized and a castle Qaitbai cracks, the castle has been on this case until the Commission for the Conservation of Antiquities Arab Year 1904 the work of many of the reforms and carry out a project for the renovation work on the basis of studies carried out by the French scholars and published in a book described Egypt as well as by travelers Cassius in his book the year 1799.
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