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Mokattam (upper area), above the City of the Dead—Cairo necropolis, in a 1904 aerial view by Eduard Spelterini from a hot air balloon. The area on election day, 2011. The Mokattam (Egyptian Arabic: المقطم [elmoˈʔɑtˤ.tˤɑm], also spelled Muqattam), also known as the Mukattam Mountain or Hills, is the name of an Eastern Desert plateau as well as the district built over it in the ...
This work is not an object of copyright in Egypt because it is an official document. Regardless of their source or target language, all official documents are ineligible for protection in Egypt, including laws, regulations, resolutions and decisions, international conventions, court decisions, award of arbitrators and decisions of ...
It was the seat of government in Egypt and the residence of its rulers for nearly 700 years from the 13th century until the construction of Abdeen Palace in the 19th century. Its location on a promontory of the Mokattam hills near the center of Cairo
St. Samaan the Tanner Coptic Orthodox Monastery - (Zabbaleen, Mokattam) St. Theodore the Oriental Coptic Orthodox Monastery - (Haret Elroum) Virgin Mary Coptic Orthodox Convent - (Haret Zuweila) St. George Coptic Orthodox Convent - (Haret Zuweila) St. Barsoum El-Erian Coptic Orthodox Monastery - (Monshat Naser, Helwan)
'Simon the Shoemaker; Craftsman'; Arabic: سمعان الدباغ, romanized: Sama'an al-Dabagh), is the Coptic Orthodox saint associated with the story of the moving the Mokattam Mountain in Cairo, Egypt, during the rule of the Muslim Fatimid Caliph al-Muizz Lideenillah (953–975) while Abraham the Syrian was the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox ...
While the "City of the Dead" is a designation frequently used in English, the Arabic name is "al-Qarafa" (Arabic: القرافة, romanized: al-Qarafa).The name is a toponym said to derive from the Banu Qarafa ibn Ghusn ibn Wali clan, a Yemeni clan descended from the Banu Ma'afir tribe, which once had a plot of land in the city of Fustat (the predecessor of Cairo).
It is located east of Cairo, situated at the foot of Mokattam mountain. Mokattam was created as a result of a series of evictions from the Imbaba area located in the Giza governorate, most notably when the Zabbaleen were given a four-day eviction notice from the governor of Giza in 1970. [20] [28]
Egypt's location. The geography of Egypt relates to two regions: North Africa and West. Egypt has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea, the River Nile, and the Red Sea.Egypt borders Libya to the west, Palestine and Israel to the east and Sudan to the south (with a current dispute over the halaib triangle).