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1092 – City wall and Gates of Cairo built (including Bab Zuweila and Bab al-Nasr). 1125 – Aqmar Mosque built. 1154 – Al-Hussein Mosque built. 1160 – Al-Salih Tala'i Mosque built. 1168 – Egypt's capital moved from Fustat to Cairo. 1176 – Cairo was unsuccessfully attacked in the Crusades. [1] 1183 – Saladin Citadel built.
11.4 Maps. Toggle the table of contents ... Cairo was later built in the year 986 to grow to become the largest and richest city ... On 3 April 2017 al-Sisi met with ...
The Cairo Geniza is an accumulation of almost 200,000 Jewish manuscripts that were found in the genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue (built 882) of Fustat, Egypt (now Old Cairo), the Basatin cemetery east of Old Cairo, and a number of old documents that were bought in Cairo in the later 19th century. These documents were written from about 870 to ...
Old Cairo (Arabic: مصر القديمة, romanized: Miṣr al-Qadīma, Egyptian pronunciation: Maṣr El-ʾAdīma) is a historic area in Cairo, Egypt, which includes the site of a Roman-era fortress, the Christian settlement of Coptic Cairo, and the Muslim-era settlements pre-dating the founding of Cairo proper in 969 AD.
More bridges were built in the following Mamluk period (13th to early 16th centuries). Sultan Baybars (r. 1260–1277) built the Bridge of the Lions (Qanatir al-Siba'), which was restored by Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad in 1331. The Amir Husayn Bridge was built circa 1319, the Aqsunqur Bridge prior to 1339, and the Tuquzdamur Bridge prior to 1345. [31]
Al-Ghandur house- 19th-century house in Historical Borders of Cairo in 2016. The residential houses from 19th century that are located in the historic Cairo area are related to the middle-class category. These houses were influenced by the earlier medieval residential architectural style as well as they shared many similarities in the plan and ...
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Modern architecture of Cairo Cairo Opera House, a landmark in the cultural landscape of Egypt and the Middle East On the Way between Old and New Cairo, Citadel Mosque of Mohammed Ali, and Tombs of the Mamelukes (1872) by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Brooklyn Museum Mahmoud Mokhtar's Egypt's Renaissance (1919–1928), Cairo University Gate Boutros ...