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There is no mistaking the fact that Jordan is a Kingdom steeped in history and culture. From the moment you arrive, you get a sense of its rich heritage; all around are remnants of ancient civilizations long since passed, yet they still remain, stamped into the very fabric of this amazing Kingdom and etched into the soul of the people who live here.

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Karak Castle is one of the largest and most important castles of the crusades in Jordan and the Levant, with an area of ​​25,300 square meters and rising from the sea surface about 1000 meters. The fortress was built by Falk the Prince of Jerusalem to protect the southern part of the Levant and secure the road between Damascus and Egypt during the Crusades. It was so powerful that it replaced the fortress of Shoubak, built 30 years earlier. Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi struck the fortress severely for a period of time and was able to wrest it in the wake of the Battle of Hittin. The rule of the castle was later moved to the Mamluks and the Ottomans, and it did not have a major historical role after the Crusades until the Great Arab Revolt, in which it played a role in controlling the transport routes between Hijaz, Sham and Egypt.
It is called kir hareseth or kir hares or kir moab and kir means the city but only if it met with the word mawab it means the castle and it was one of the most important cities of the kingdom of mawab either before or after the rule of king mashaa al-mawabi and its name remained kareeb until the Crusader occupation of the country (1096 - 1291), during this period other than the Crusaders, the name of Céré Méabé to the Crec des moabites. It is French. It means the fortress of the muebians. It seems to be a translation of its name Céré mouab and then kerak of Crac or krak, a French word for the citadel, the current name of the city.
The foundation of the castle of Karak dates back to the era of the Mu'abiyyim around 860 BC. The Nabataeans used it as evidence that there were Nabataean statues inscribed on the first foundations of the citadel. It remained in the Roman and Byzantine times as a protective shield for Jordan, as referred to by Madaba Map of the mosaic among the castles of this region. In the Islamic conquests led by Muslim armies led by Abu Ubaida bin Jarrah Vastsltm him. The Karak castle continued to play its defensive role in the Islamic era, because the Muslims took care of old castles and worked to strengthen and add to the increase and the building. The castle of Karak was a fiefdom of the Fatimid commander of the Turkish Baltkin in the year (372 AH 982 AD).
When the Crusaders founded the Kingdom of Latin Jerusalem in 492 AH (1099 AD), they occupied the region of southern Jordan in 509 and 510 AH (1115 and 1116 AD) and founded the Baroness of Karak and Shobak. In the year (537 AH 1142 AD) Crusaders seized the fortress of Karak and increased it until it became a center of Baroness Karak and Shobak, and one of the most important castles of the Crusaders in the Levant. The Karak castle played an important role in the Crusader era by controlling the transportation routes in the Jordan region between the Levant and the Hijaz and Egypt on the other hand, as it was often protected by commercial convoys and pilgrims headed to Mecca in the south and raided the Arab ports on the shores of the Red Sea. Fadlullah al-Amri described it as a luxury for the Hijaz. These repeated attacks were one of the reasons that led Salah al-Din to collect his armies and march towards the Levant to fight the Crusaders in the year 1178 AD approved for 583 AH.
After the collapse of the Ayyubid state, the power of the Karak castle was transferred to the Mamluk sultans, who developed it by constructing a number of additional towers and fortifications. The site was rebuilt by Al-Zaher Baybars after it fell into his hands in 1263 AD. Large arsenals of the rebellious citizens of the Ottoman Empire took place in 1910 in the Karak Fort, where the Ottoman soldiers opened fire on the rebels from the walls of the fortress and its tall towers.
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Castle from afar.
British 5-inch Hautzer cannon.
Ibn Battuta (Muhammad ibn Abdullah, 1303-1377) said about Al-Karak Fort, in his book "The Masterpiece of the Principals in the Strange Things and the Miracles of Travel:
"Then they will go to the fortress of Karak. He is the flower of the forts, and he forbids them and the most famous ones. It is called the crow's fortress. The valley is covered with all its sides, and it has one door, and the entrance to it is carved into stone. The entrance to Dahlizah as well. In this fortress fortified the kings, and the resort resorted to the calamities and the refuge of King Nasser. For he is the king's guardian when he is young. He took over the measure owned by his deputy Salar. King Al-Nasser showed that he wanted the Hajj. The princes agreed. So go to Hajj. When he reached an obstacle, he resorted to the fort and stayed there for days until he intended the princes of the Levant. The Mamluks met him and he was the king's guardian in that period Bibris the Gashniker, the prince of food and called the king of Almtzafar. He built the Pankar Khankah near the Khanaqah happy happy built by Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi. King Al-Nasser Al-Assaker. Peppers went to the desert. Then the soldiers followed him and arrested him. He brought him to King Al-Nasser and ordered to kill him. He was killed. Salar was arrested and imprisoned in a cadaver until he died of starvation. He is said to have eaten a hungry carcass. "The castle is still mysterious from within, and there are basements that have not been discovered yet."

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