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Citadel of Homs

Homs, Homs Governorate, Syria
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About Citadel of Homs

Homs Castle is situated in the Homs, Syria. The stronghold was based over an antiquated advice with remains going back to the third thousand years BCE. Julia Domna, little girl of the esteemed cleric Julius Bassianus, has added to enhance the city of Emesa and its fortification amid the Roman Syria period. Around then, the bastion could contain settlement, stockrooms and authoritative structures encompassed by the semi-roundabout dividers. The bastion is privately known as "Citadel of Usama", named after Usama ibn Munqidh.

Be that as it may, today the Citadel is in ruinous state because of huge decimation begun by the Egyptian armed force of Ibrahim Pasha in the 1830s. This was trailed by levelling and broad new development did when the site was utilized as an army installation by the French armed force amid the Mandate time frame and from that point by the Syrian armed force. The Citadel was relinquished for military purposes in the late 1980s when it goes to the Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums. Visitors come to visit this place from all over the world with their friends and family members. You can visit this place with your friends and loved ones and experience this place.

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