Travel Guide Harim

Having returned to the main axis, we arrive in Harim following a road in a balcony over 15 km. It dominates, in the north, the plaine de l'Amouq fertilized by the Orontes and the Aafrine which leads towards Antioch before throwing itself into the Mediterranean and the Plain Plain to the West. At the entrance to Harim, left the road for Kirk Biza and Qalb Louze, you are heading to the village and its castle. The rich plain that stretches at the foot of Harim leaves the strategic importance of this site. In his hand, the master of the places had access from Aleppo to the Mediterranean. The Byzantine occupied the site in 959 in their attempt to regain the territory on Muslims. The reaction of Bursa Turks came only at the end of the th century. Shortly afterwards, the franques armies of the first crusade made an advanced position for the long siege of Antioch began in 1097. Cross Harim should not fall permanently in the hands of Noureddin until 1164. It was at the Ayyoubides in Aleppo that the burden of rebuilding the fortress was restored in a style close to that of the city of Aleppo. It did not withstand the th century Mongolian raids.