Statue of Saladin Statue of Saladin / / gallery 
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A statue of Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub stands outside the Old City's Citadel, with the western entrance of Souq al-Hamidiyya behind it. He is best known in the Western world as Saladin, the Mulsim hero who became the first Ayyubid Sultan of Egypt and Syria, and led Muslim opposition to the European Crusaders in the Levant in the 12th century.
LOCATION: Damascus
DATE: Tue, 18/05/2010
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