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In the 12th century, Saladin and his successors built an impenetrable bastion in the Citadel,
using the most advanced construction techniques of the age. For the next 700 years, Egypt was
ruled from this hill. Today, only the green-domed mosque and a fragment of al-Qasr al-Ablaq (the striped
palace) remain. The Citadel's appearance is the vision of Muhammad 'Ali.
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