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Crossing the Nahr el-Jawz valley, this road turns around Ras ech-Chaqa'a promontory to reach the other side at a spot near El-Heri called Bab el-Hawa (meaning the "door of the wind"). Building edified strongholds along this new road was of great strategic and military importance in order to preserve security and ensure communication and traffic control. The Mseilha Fort was built for such purposes.
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The fort's architectural design consists of two homogenous sections built in two separate phases. The fort is approached through a narrow path and small stairway cut into the northern side of the bedrock. A small platform precedes the low arched main gate, secured by two loopholes and a small opening
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The more elevated part of the fort is accessed through the east side of the main courtyard. A doorway leading to a hall, followed by three vaulted rooms, gives access to the eastern tower. An internal stairway leads to the room on the first floor. This section is the most fortified and equipped part
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In 2007, restoration works were undertaken to make the site safe for visitors, by building a long fence around the citadel and providing several entrance and exit doors. The foundation of the staircase was consolidated and metal handrails were installed. Works also included landscaping, rain water
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in 551 CE, the coastal road linking the cities of Batroun, El-Heri and Tripoli completely disappeared, transforming the northern shoreline into a high sea cliff. Consequently, a new road bypassing the promontory from the east was necessary to ensure communication between Batroun and the North.
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A number of scholars have studied the history and architecture of Mseilha. Some assume that the rock on which the fort stands was used since ancient times as a military position. However, the fort does not include in its current construction any element related to an earlier period, even the
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Abi Nader al-Khazen to build the fort north of Batroun. According to Tannous ach-Chidiaq, another local historian, al-Khazen later restored the fort in 1631, less than 10 years after its initial construction.
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Therefore, the year 1624 is established by both historians and eyewitness reports as the construction date of Mseilha by Fakhr ed-Dine II. Further confirmation was attested by
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This account is also validated by local chronicles. For example, father Mansour al-Hattouny stated that around 1624, Emir Fakhr ed-Dine ordered
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drains installation to prevent water from leaking into the citadel and repaving the access road to the citadel from the highway nearby. The
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Studies on the Christian Arabic heritage: in honour of Father Prof. Dr. Samir Khalil Samir S.I. at the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday
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Even if the strategic importance of the site was exploited since antiquity, the fort itself cannot be dated earlier that the 17th century.
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The Mseilha fort dominates the Nahr El Jawz valley from atop its rocky spur, as seen here from the south
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of the castle due to its strategic position controlling the entrance of the Nahr el-Jawz valley.
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This disproves the alternative hypothesis, according to which the Mseilha fort was given to the
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are the only remains of an earlier structure probably built for the same defensive reason.
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Auzias, Dominique; Jean-Paul Labourdette; Guillaume Boudisseau; Christelle Thomas (2008).
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rock. The thickness of the walls ranges from 1.5 to 2 meters (4 to 6.5 feet). The larger
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could not relate the architectural elements in Mseilha to anything earlier than the
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by Bertrand de Saint-Gilles in retribution of their service during the taking of
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blocks quarried from the nearby coast and built onto the edge of the
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Khalil, Samir; R.Y. Ebied; Herman G.B. Teule (2004).
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Mseilha
Arabic

Batroun
Lebanon
34°16′26″N 35°41′24″E / 34.273804°N 35.690072°E / 34.273804; 35.690072
Roman times
Fort
Mseilha Fort is located in Lebanon
Arabic
romanized
Hamat
Lebanon
Fakhreddine II
Tripoli
Beirut
sandstone
limestone
limestone blocks
vestibule
courtyard
cisterns
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Qibla
Mecca

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