قلعة مخيط - Unnamed Road

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Heritage places far from the lights

One of the tourist attractions in Medina

The castle is beautiful, but unfortunately it is not open to visit from the inside

The buildings are very beautiful and historical The place for the secretariat is neglected and full of rubbish, and the road is also not good

Bad evaluation of Google, because the attached site in Google does not completely connect you to the site of the castle

Mikhit Station is one of the stations of the Hijaz Railway, established in 1327 AH, 12 km northwest of Medina. Label According to the professor ate my country and her plate Bast without a point. the ingredients It consists of a castle, barracks and several monitors spread over the mountains. The castle is built of black manicured stones. It contains a lobby that opens to 6 ground rooms, two toilets, a large ground water tank or a water well, and a staircase hanging up to two rooms. The castle has a painting with the year 1327 AH. Military barracks: to protect the train from hostile tribes and accommodates about 150 Ottoman soldiers The Hijaz Railway or the Hijaz Railway or the Hijaz Railway (in Ottoman Turkish: Hijaz Timur Yuli, and contemporary Turkish: Hicaz Demiryolu) is a narrow railway (1050 mm wide), connecting Damascus and Medina, which was founded during the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II for the purpose of serving Muslim pilgrims and linking the provinces of the Ottoman Empire and tighten control. Construction of the railway began in 1900 and was opened in 1908, and continued operation until the line was destroyed in 1916 during the First World War, as it was sabotaged by the Great Arab Revolution and the fall of the Ottoman Empire after the World War The Hijaz Railway was known in the Ottoman records as the “Shamandar Hijaz Line” or “the Hijaz Hamidi Railway.” The idea of ​​establishing the Hijaz Line was first proposed in 1864 during the reign of Sultan Abdul Aziz I, and was renewed in 1881, but there were several difficulties worked to postpone Project execution. Later he reintroduced the idea to Sultan Abdul Hamid II, his second secretary, Izzat Pasha Al Abid, and then Sultan Abdul Hamid issued orders to build the line in 1900. At that time, Sultan Abdulhamid II was keen to complete the work to maintain the unity of the provinces of the Ottoman Empire and to avoid its disintegration and collapse. Sultan Abdulhamid II entrusted the task of implementing the project to Ahmed Ezzat Pasha Al Abid.The project includes the construction of the Hijaz railway to link the Anatolia Railway to the Baghdad Railway, in addition to the establishment of a telegraphic communication network along the railway, where Sultan Abdul Hamid wanted That is the ease and speed of communication between the center of the Ottoman state and its states in Syria and Hijaz. The idea was that the line would start from Damascus, through Amman, Ma'an, Tombtabuk and Madain Saleh to Madinah, which was implemented. The plan of the Hijazi project was to extend to Mecca and then to Jeddah, but this was not achieved. Objectives The establishment of the Hijazi line and the telegraphic network had several objectives, ranging from religious, political, military, economic and cultural. The religious goal comes in the priority of those goals, where the Hijazi line project was aimed at serving Muslim pilgrims by providing a means of travel to provide security, speed and comfort, and protection of pilgrims from attacks and blocking roads that were sometimes exposed to the road and sea, Increased number of pilgrims wishing to perform Hajj due to lower costs. The project was also aimed at facilitating military movements, countering any external attacks on the Hijaz, Red Sea, and Yemen, and tightening control over areas of political tension. One of the objectives is to revive the economy in the region by achieving a commercial and economic renaissance of the cities of Hejaz as well as the cities along the line, and to transport commercial and agricultural products to other areas in a rapid way by train, and it was planned to extend the railway to one of the ports Red Sea; increasing the economic and commercial importance of the line. The project would also have shown that the Ottoman Empire was capable of making great cultural achievements. In addition, Sultan Abdulhamid II had political objectives behind the establishment of the Hijazi line, where he considered that the completion of this project gives a measure of independence to the Ottoman Empire from Europe in terms of military, political and economic, Sultan Abdulhamid II was seeking to unite the ranks of Muslims and form an Islamic Union to face European colonial ambitions and attacks on the Ottoman Empire. The first train arrived at Madinah station from Damascus on August 23, 1908, having traveled only five days. But the opening of the official Hijaz railway was postponed for a week to mark the 32nd anniversary of Sultan Abdulhamid II's accession to the throne of the Ottoman Empire on September 1, 1908, and was opened amid large ceremonial ceremonies that occasion at the city station, also known as Alastasion [Turkish], a Turkish word It comes in the sense of «station», located in Amberia.

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