Orabi Tabiya

Orabi tabiya is oe of the military castles fouded by the Frech occupatio o the ruis of the city of Ezbet al-Burj, orth of Damietta more tha two hudred years after the Frech campaig destroyed the old fortress for the people ad resistace At the time of the killig of may soldiers of the campaig of apoleo, but after beig aware of the importace of its locatio built agai ad fortified for fear of possible attacks from the Ottomas or the Eglishma Mohamed era to take care of reewal ad care as the first Khedive Abbas Pasha ad Khedive Ismail are of great importace to their defesive importace o the orther coasts of Egypt. The architectural descriptio of the castle cosists of three mai sectios The first is the walls, which represet a itegrated defesive lie beside the trech separatig them. This lie ca achieve its task efficietly. It has to be easily supplied to the soldiers, icludig supplies, weapos ad fortificatios. For the protectio of the establishmet of towers at close distaces for easy commuicatio betwee soldiers ad Almorabi ad orgaizatio of work where it was provided with treches, corridors, towers ad towers Secod: It icludes buildigs located i the wester façade of the citadel ad overlookig directly o the ile, i additio to some parts of the curretly rudow walls The third sectio is located i the easter part ad also icludes several buildigs, oe of which is likely to be the mosque, which is i the middle of the castle ad the house of Al-Hakamdar, i additio to several stores for missios, A moder paved road is curretly oe of the most importat buildigs of this sectio is a large red brick buildig cosistig of a rectagular area that has bee divided ito two large rectagular pillars, It is believed that this buildig was used as a slaughterhouse or diig room for soldiers, ad four stables for horses each with a semi-circular vault. The buildig is adjacet to a rectagular buildig supportig all its rear facades Ad the wester ad easter three huge pillars of stoe, which covers the roof of the form of beauty ad is believed to have bee used as a priso or priso, where the plaig icluded the costructio of a large kashlak ad several stores for gupowder, Large was provided by water at the time of the absece of floodig ad i the era of Khedive Ismael has built ad icrease the thickess of the walls ad stregthe ad clea the trech for its importace at the time.