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The area where the Citadel is now located began
it's life not as a great military base of
operations, but as the "Dome of the Wind", a
pavilion created in 810 by Hatim Ibn Hartama,
who was then governor. Indeed this area was well
known for its cool breeze. These early
governors, not realizing its strategic
importance, simply used the pavilion for its
view of
Cairo.
Between 1176 and 1183,
Salah ad-Din (Saladin to Westerners
1171-1193 AD), an
Abbasid Ruler, fortified the area to protect
it against attacks by the
Crusaders, and since then, it has never been
without a military garrison. Originally it
served as both a fortress and a royal city. |
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