The marvels of nature and the genius of medieval Arab military architecture have given northern Jordan two of the most important ecological and historical attractions in the Middle East: the sprawling pine forests of the Ajlun-Dibbine<\/strong> area, and the towering Ayyubid castle at Ajlun, which helped to defeat the Crusaders 8 centuries ago. Ajlun Castle<\/strong> (Qal\u2019at Ar-Rabad) was built by one of Saladin\u2019s generals in 1184 AD to control the iron mines of Ajlun, and to deter the Franks from invading Ajloun. Ajloun Castle dominated the 3 main routes leading to the Jordan Valley and protected the trade and commercial routes between Jordan and Syria; it became an important link in the defensive chain against the Crusaders, who, unsuccessfully spent decades trying to capture the castle and the nearby village. <\/p>\n The castle<\/strong> was conceded in the 13th century to Salah ed-Din Yousef Ibn Ayoub, ruler of Aleppo and Damascus, who restored the northeastern tower. These expansion efforts were interrupted in 1260 AD, when Mongol invaders destroyed the castle, but almost immediately, the Mameluk Sultan Baybars re-conquered and rebuilt the fortress. <\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The marvels of nature and the genius of medieval Arab military architecture have given northern Jordan two of the most important ecological and historical attractions in the Middle East: the sprawling pine forests of the Ajlun-Dibbine area, and the towering Ayyubid castle at Ajlun, which helped to defeat the Crusaders 8 centuries ago. Ajlun Castle [...]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/yolojordan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/caption.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yolojordan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yolojordan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yolojordan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yolojordan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yolojordan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yolojordan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yolojordan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yolojordan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yolojordan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yolojordan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Le ch\u00e2teau d\u2019origine avait 4 tours, des fentes de fl\u00e8che incorpor\u00e9es dans les murs \u00e9pais, et \u00e9tait entour\u00e9 d\u2019un foss\u00e9 d\u2019une largeur moyenne de 16 m et jusqu\u2019\u00e0 15 m de profondeur.
En 1215, l\u2019officier mamelouk Aibak ibn Abdullah agrandit le ch\u00e2teau apr\u00e8s la mort d\u2019Oussama, en ajoutant une nouvelle tour dans le coin sud-est et un pont qui peut encore \u00eatre vu d\u00e9cor\u00e9 de reliefs de pigeon.<\/p>\n
Si vous avez des jumelles, apportez-les avec vous en Jordanie. Vous pourrez appr\u00e9cier non seulement la faune vari\u00e9e dans les r\u00e9serves naturelles, mais aussi les vues fantastiques d\u2019endroits tels que Ajloun.
Dix soldats de Salah ed-Din gardent le ch\u00e2teau tous les jours de la semaine. Ils sont plac\u00e9s aux 4 niveaux de porte diff\u00e9rents que le ch\u00e2teau a. Deux sont sur le toit o\u00f9 vole le Mamelouk jaune. Des \u00e9chelles de si\u00e8ge appuy\u00e9es sur le mur ajoutent \u00e0 l\u2019atmosph\u00e8re de guerre.<\/p>\n