Al-Husn

 castle, region

Sunni Muslim town

From the junction by 21 km wide and about 60 km from Homs, known as the bulwark of the Kurds (3), where one of the warlords has facilities to control the Homs road between the coast and in the interior. Given the strategic importance of its location has been occupied by the Crusaders in 1109 and amended in the construction and Usaoha to serve military purposes.

Since then known to Europeans as the Crac des chevaliers. Castle is a fortress full of the fortified citadels of the military. And took the form of a regular polygon, however, the length of the large diameter of 200 m and 140 m small. E has an area of 3 did not complete the construction of the castle at one time, and was the first of beings created in 1031 and the application of rollers Osknoha way to protect the Kurds, and Kurds bore the name of a fortress.

Occupied by the Crusaders in 1109 Voaado building towers and restored after the earthquake in 1157 and the earthquake in 1170. Besieged by Nur al-Din, Salah al-Din, and then edit the Mamluke Bebars in 1271, foreigners were allowed to leave the country. Then ordered the renewal of the castle and built the towers, and then established Qalawun rectangular tower, and since 1927 has been the citadel of the population of the evacuation of the neighboring village, became a tourist site after it had been repaired