حمص _ دراسة وثائقية ١٨٤٠ - ١٩١٨ ه ، كيف كانت حمص في تلك الحقبة ٢_a .. كتاب حمص

The delegate to his immunity, and the Homs Citadel was also, before that, a small man, so he built it, enlarged it, and fortified it, and how many people cared for it with the utmost care for God Almighty (1).

It seems that further care was given to the gates of the city after that during the reign of his son Al-Mansur Ibrahim (1239 - 1245) AD = (644 - 637) AH. The inscription on the lintel (Bab Al-Masdud) indicates that its builder was Al-Mansur Ibrahim, the son of Asad Al-Din Shirkuh. the second. “He ordered the rebuilding of this gate, our Lord, the Authority, the King, Al-Mansour, the Master, the Eternal, the Knowing, the Just, the Mujahid, Al-Murabit, the Supporter, Al-Muzaffar Al-Mansour, the Sultan of Islam and the Muslims who love justice in the worlds, Nasser, the Commander of the Faithful, Abu Tahir Ibrahim bin Shirkuh bin Muhammad, with the poor servant looking at the pardon of his Forgiving Lord, Zain Al-Din Yaqoub bin Nasr Al-Mujahideen. Al-Mansouri in the month of Dhul-Hijjah in the year 641.

We saw in the historical introduction that all the slopes of the citadel were covered with stones of blue basalt, until Ibrahim bin Muhammad Ali Pasha arrived in Homs and entered the city after a violent battle with the Turkish garrison there, which used the cannons installed on the citadel to resist the Egyptians. Therefore, Ibrahim Pasha decided, after... When he entered Homs, he destroyed the citadel’s facilities, so he ordered that the basalt layer be removed from its slopes to be used in building the military depot (depot), which is a distortion of the French depot, meaning warehouse.

In the year 1911 AD, the municipality of Homs uprooted the remaining basalt stones at the slopes of the citadel and built warehouses with them in the eastern part of the silo, which served as a warehouse for liquid fuels (a kazhan). The warehouses are still standing to this day, and residential homes were built above them, and from here the tradition arose.

Popularity at that time installed the castle on top of the minaret (1).

C - The surrounding lands:

Homs was located within its walls in the southern part of it, and it was surrounded by vineyards and agricultural lands. The (Al-Nasoub) vineyard (2) is located in the land of the ditch, and the Salahi vineyard is to the south of the shrine of our master Ikrimah, and it is bordered by the qiblah of the vineyard of Lal Al-Atassi, and to the east is a road that leads to the village of (Maskanah). To the south and southwest of these vineyards are the lands of Al-Sawamat, extending from the hill of Baba Amr to the lands of Fayrouza in the east of Homs. It was designated for grazing cattle and stray horses.

As for the lands in the east, they were rainfed and cultivated vines and grains such as wheat, barley, chickpeas, and lentils. On the north side, Al-Hamidiyah Street had to wait another forty years until it was able to appear after that as a saint of lands adjacent to the walls of the Great Mosque, which is the city wall on this side, dug and dumping dirt and filth. The cesspool (the Pasha's bath), the Al-Fakhoura area, and the water from the cesspool of the Grand Al-Nuri Mosque are poured into it.

This area of ​​the two lands was divided into two parts: the tribal section adjacent to the walls of the Grand Mosque and included in the aforementioned endowment of Al-Jam, and the northern section between the first section and Al-Hamidiyah Street, which belongs to the endowment of the Bani Qasoum Mosque, which was rented and monopolized by (Ahmed Ali Al-Satli) in the year (1311) AH (1893). ) m. He filled in some of the holes for (sixty thousand.)