. Saladin and the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. GOLD COIN OF SALADlN STRUCK AT ALEXANDRIA IN 1183. CHAPTER VIII. SALADIN AT VISITORS to modern Cairo see very little ofSaladins capital. Besides the three ancientgates, three ruined mosques, and part of theold walls, nothing remains of the city he traversedwhen he first rode out from the Fatimid palaceat the head of his guard. The most conspicuousfeature of the present Cairo, the Citadel, with itsslender Turkish minarets and commanding battle-ments, did not exist: only a rounded spur of MountMukattam suggested the place where
. Saladin and the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. GOLD COIN OF SALADlN STRUCK AT ALEXANDRIA IN 1183. CHAPTER VIII. SALADIN AT VISITORS to modern Cairo see very little ofSaladins capital. Besides the three ancientgates, three ruined mosques, and part of theold walls, nothing remains of the city he traversedwhen he first rode out from the Fatimid palaceat the head of his guard. The most conspicuousfeature of the present Cairo, the Citadel, with itsslender Turkish minarets and commanding battle-ments, did not exist: only a rounded spur of MountMukattam suggested the place where a fortressshould be built. Most of the wide expanse, nowcovered by the European houses of the Ismailiyaquarter, between the Ezbekiya and the river, wasunderwater ; for in Saladins day the Nile ran muchfurther east and almost washed the city wall at thepart where the river-suburb of el-Maks then and its island were not as yet risen above thesurface of the water, and there was no Abbasiyasuburb on the north. Houses and streets indeed in
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