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Qal'at Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn, also spelled Qal'at Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn, Qal'at Salah el-Din and Qalaat Salah ed-Din, and also called Sahyun or Saone and the Fortress of Saladin is a hilltop fortress surrounded by a ditch-moat, located near al-Haffa on an east-west road. The currently extent fortifications were built by the Byzantines1. It, together with another fortress, is a World Heritage Site.