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The residential architecture in Historic Cairo covers the area that was built during the Fatimid, Ayyubid, Mamluk, Ottoman, French occupation and even Mohamed Ali periods. [1] Historic Cairo covers an area of around 523.66 ha on the eastern bank of the Nile river and is surrounded by the modern quarters of Greater Cairo .
1814 Al-Gawhara Palace at Cairo citadel [22] 1854 Kasr al-Nil (now demolished but the area in downtown Cairo still carries its name) [41] 1863 Gezirah Palace (now a private hotel) [48] 1863 Abdeen Palace - former royal residence, Cairo [22] 1897 Count Gabriel Habib El-Sakakini Pasha Palace at Old Cairo [49] [50] 1898 Anisa Wissa Palace, Fayoum ...
Abdeen District is the home of Abdeen Palace (Arabic: قصر عابدين), a 19th-century Cairo palace built by Khedive Ismail and served as the Egyptian royal household's primary official residence from 1874 until the July Revolution in 1952. [1] Since then it has been of the presidential palaces. [1]
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).
This is a list of buildings in Cairo, Egypt. Ancient sites and monuments. Giza Pyramids; Senusret I Obelisk (Heliopolis Obelisk) [1] Museums. The Egyptian Museum.
Building collapses are common in Cairo, home to some 20 million people, and the shortage of affordable housing is so acute that 1.5 to 2 million are believed to live in tombs in an area known as ...
The following 8 pages use this file: 2023–24 Egyptian Premier League; 2023–24 Egyptian Second Division A; 2024 PSA Men's World Squash Championship
This area is a roughly 100-mile drive northeast from Cairo. One of the artifacts found at the 3,400-year-old rest house. Photos show what’s left of the 3,400-year-old rest house.