حمص _ دراسة وثائقية ١٨٤٠ - ١٩١٨ ه ، كيف كانت حمص في تلك الحقبة ٥_a .. كتاب حمص

Al-Shousa Road, to the east the aforementioned Salik Road and Al-Dabawiyah, to the west the Salik Road and Saqiyat Al-Baladah, and to the north the aforementioned Coffee, Shops, and Khan.

It appears that a small piece of land, with an area of ​​six hundred and fifty cubits, was located to the north of Khan Abd al-Hamid al-Durubi. He annexed it to the khan and built five (rooms) on it. The heirs did not benefit from the lawsuit they filed with the Sharia Court in Homs, and the land remained for Abd al-Hamid al-Durubi.

At that time, Saqiyat Homs was passing through western Homs, keeping in line with its orchards from the eastern side, and passing under the following bridges, starting from the south towards the north, the first bridge on the old Tripoli road, and at the current President’s station and the site of (1) Waterfalls Park, then it passed under the Najdi Bridge, at the site of the shoe factory. Currently, then by Al-Kharab Bridge leading to Al-Kharab Mill, then by Al-Hamra Bridge, then by Al-Jadida Bridge, which used to lead to the (New) Mill on the current site of the Engineers and Doctors Syndicate Club. Then it enters the orchard of Beit Rizq Salloum, the current restaurant, Al-Cardinia. Then it changes direction and heads towards the south, passing by Al-Bayada Bridge near the aforementioned orchard. After Al-Bayada Bridge, about a hundred meters, it heads towards the south-east, passing through the middle of the current Granada Street, then deviates towards the east until it passes the narrow street located in Between Omar Barr Al-Khattab High School in the south and Qasim Al-Jandali Building in the north, and after the end of the mentioned street, it heads towards the south, crossing Al-Dablan Street until it overlooks Tripoli Road, then it deviates towards the east for a distance of fifty meters towards the city, then it deviates towards the north-east, passing through Abdul Hamid Al-Droubi Street, and at its end it deviates completely towards the east. Passing from the north of Al-Dabouya and north of Majoul Genena and his palace, then it turns towards the south for a distance of fifty metres, then turns towards the east, passing by the Mawlawiyya Hospice, and after passing about fifty meters, it turns towards the north, crossing Al-Quwatli Street now, entering the Al-Basateen area to water it, passing through the Winery Alley or (Bonsu) Street (1) in The era of the French Mandate or Al-Asha Street after independence (all of which have the same name).

The semi-circle drawn by the waterwheel between the western and eastern ends of the dublan was called Bustan and Karam (Al-Takli) in reference to the Seljuk emirate of (Tekke), which existed in the early fourteenth century (AD) on the southern shore of modern Turkey overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. It seems that one of its inhabitants who... They immigrated to Homs. He was one of the Seljuks of Rum, so he was attributed to his origin from (Tekke), so he was known as Takla, and one of his descendants acquired this region in the nineteenth century and gave it to his descendants, so at the end of the nineteenth century it reached his granddaughter, Al-Hajja (Aleph), daughter of Abdo bin Munla, Abdullah bin Munla Ali. Al-Turkmani, husband of Qasim Kishi, and she was the legal guardian of the endowment of her father Abdo bin Munla Abdullah = April 1886 AD, according to the argument of guardianship dated Jumada al-Awwal (1303 AH) issued by the legitimate ruler of Homs at the time (Sadr al-Din Effendi). This plot was known as (Bustan Alif). The northeastern part of Al-Babtan, overlooking the north on Al-Dablan Street, or Al-Mutanabbi Street today, was given to Sayyid (Abu Al-Nasr Ibn Khaled Al-Anasi), where he built a house and a garden attached to it. Then his children guided the house and established its place and the place of the garden to which the huge architectural mass was attached.