Rise Beaufort seven hundred meters above sea level, towering challenge the invaders since the beginning of history, there was a war of civilizations past, built and destroyed several times, but the greatness of distinctive feel and you fortifications destroyed as if black world has dug Bonaabha history, since people first, and passing through all the invaders until the Persians, Romans, Crusaders, and the Zionists last, all died, all Andhroa under their feet Almgruzh in rocks Beaufort, all bowed before her pillar to heaven, all of them, left dumbfounded in front of the secret of this people southern Lebanese Great, who gave the martyrs, after her historic, scientific restoration, real, I mean re-writing the glorious history as it is, not as they want.
Beaufort Castle fortress used to fill the gaps in terms of the sea as it is known throughout history. Moved from the Umayyad caliphs to the Abbasid caliphs Vataiwlaunayn Fajlfa Egypt Alawites Valslajqh Valotapkh Turk Valsalibin them then to the Turks Vomra this country nationals.
Date back construction to pre-medieval times, and believes that (Kiran) French tourist who visited Syria in the nineteenth century, was the first wrote about The definition Bibnatha It wrote: "This castle entrance and one from the south, and form a triangle angles, measured (160 meters) in length and (100) meters wide, flanked by the rest of the destinations wells Engraved in the rock, and protects it from the eastern side stream water majestic called (the Litani River) flowing waters in the deep valley, and in the south out there swimming in the rock, and in the West tanks where great basins Engraved in the bedrock and roofed stone contracts in the North Basin section of it pecked into the rock, and the building department, and the surrounding walls sloping In many basins inside the castle was meeting where water fills a need caught up with it for the blockade. "
It is surrounded on the south and west Bhoh deeply engraved in the rock depth of 15 meters to 36 meters. The south was related to the peak of the mountain and castle entrance to the south-east and 120 meters in length and 35 meters in depth, and the northern tip building cantilever length of 21 meters heading to the east. The courtyard on the eastern side of the depth of about 16 meters, and the same buildings and Foreign decline varies from six to nine meters.
He has on the southern wall towers in the form of a half circle. The castle where construction is rectangular and very narrow, according to the land upon which there is no suitable geometric mean between length and width, "The stones they are all square corners, but it's not Pkberh like stone in Jerusalem and Baalbek in court sculpture, hand middle Vahadjr embossed and is sculpted.
The historians Arabs were not exposed to mention this castle before the Crusades before in 1189 AD but (William) Bishop Photos shown to be mentioned before this date twenty years and some historians Afrang re mentioned beyond this time much, where it is said to have occurred in the grip (Falk) King of Jerusalem in 1139, and confirm that it existed at the time of the First Crusade invasion.
Definitely do not mean doing in that era it was full of Amrana dispense restoration and increase immunization must be that the hands of the Crusaders extended it after that Become their own and re-restored and renovated and built a new building is distinct from ancient Roman construction and building Arabs. The western side had been built by the Crusaders, and no where to build the middle Ages only a few effects.The Crusaders built more than the eastern side. And see in the middle of the Latin Church roof composed of intersecting arches and a small door introduces him to the inner court. And there are traces of buildings have thought it was erected stables Crusaders. And near the eastern corner effects connected to the top of the castle buildings served as the entrance to her, too, like all medieval castles in the Levant Temple or from the East Chapel.
Was Arnat (Reinhold) spends his work in the vaccinated during the truce held with (Salahuddin) Day came under siege with his army thick equipped machines blockade and tools of destruction, said Gen. Isfahani meeting Arnat goodness religion and nails him Bamhala three months to deliver the castle "embarking Arnat to remove his fort and handed over for salads, have been restored to the French with Castle Safed in 1240 AD agreement held with Ismail king Damascus handed them on to be a helper to milk his brother Saleh Ayoub in 1260 AD where they purchased the convent Alheikliyn Sidon castle of Ulians governor of Sidon, and Benoit New Palace for what is thought He sees its ruins, a few hundred meters on the south side, and stayed with them to the year 1268, a year in which they seized them (Baybars) after a severe siege. Then rebuilt and held pawns of Muslims, and this is also what Kieran said.
The Beaufort Qotain adjacent gathered (Baybars) between them and built them inclusively and bathroom and House on behalf of, and either the mosque is still standing in the high castle until today, and either the bathroom will think some of them he was in perigee mountain based on it, successive them by the kings of Egypt and the Levant. Did not lose a bit of immunity from the reign of Baybars takeover in 1400 and continued to coherent century abstaining to Almnglpin refuge for fugitives. It was then, however, Fakhreddine on the second, who was deported to Europe, compacted strong keeper with his army, and besieged sixty days was firing guns on consecutive uninterrupted but has not been given them Merba.And the lifting of the blockade after an agreement with him and the mother of the princes concerned Fakhruddin and Younis.
Demolished just like any other castles by Yazji who went with Mustafa Knkhaddawib Kirbak and Prince Yunus Aharfush to castles and directed where they develop constructive and Hedmoha and continued in this work about forty days, and that was in 1616.
In Lebanon munitions that Prince Ali Bin Fakhreddine is demolished Qotai Arnon and Tyrone. At the beginning of the seventeenth century (AD) created the Fakhruddin on some reform and neglected of the time, either historians Prince Haider Shihabi and his News Senate has Tuba name of this castle and modern reconstruction and destruction and suffered its events in 1616 AD to the year 1769 and. For a century and a half during which the provisions of the country deliberated attributed to it (country Beaufort) between feudal rulers like Sheikh Nassif Nassar, and the sons of Sodon and all small and gentlemen Alchukria and all difficult and all evil. And all Zain, said Sheikh Ali Reza is who wrote the history of that century language slang "that Alsobeih arrested in (1744 m) on Sheikh Mohammed Faris and put him in a castle Arnon," The boom Imran Beaufort Castle and restore former glory was time Sheikh Ali Haider son Ahmed bin Haider bin Faris in 1738 AD as previously statement in 1780 AD, where seized Butcher on Qotai Tibnin and Hounien and killed Nassif and his brother Abba Hamad, after trapping Sheikh Haidar knight in Beaufort Months seized a ladder and confiscated everything in the castle and Hedmoha.
The year 1837 AD quake demolished highest and lost its importance and take the people of the neighboring areas transporting stones Phippnon homes. And became the mighty fortress and halls beautiful She was the home of princes and supervision desolation and shelter for shepherds and cattle, and said that the door to the castle Iron Great transferred to Acre time butcher who make door of the city, as well as the transfer of Sheikh Hassan Fares Alsobei aside from stones colored to his village Babylonian Zain some buildings in which the most recent.
They are less malleable of Jerusalem stone, but it has affected the environmental factors and the effects of chemical agents, as well as other factors such as: the war and modern fire during the occupation.
Some allege that the parents of the witness with his own eyes the entrance of the tunnel that connects to the Litani and walked a distance of tens of meters did not reach its end. But last seen this castle siege was hit by flying by the enemies of civilization and forgers history Zionists Israelis, who Andhroa them to escape after being raided in the eleventh hour and a half from the night of May 24 of the year 2000.
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