Cairo

Cairo

Cairo is the capital of the Arab Republic of Egypt and the most important cities at all, has a population of Cairo city of 7,787,000 people, according to 2007 statistics, representing 10.73% of the total population of Egypt, while the Greater Cairo's population of 20 million and a half people. Inhabited by more than a quarter of the population of Egypt's population of at home and abroad 91 million and 475 thousand and 426 people, according to census 2012 [1], and up population density to over 15 thousand people per square kilometer, and named after a historical name of the city of a thousand minarets of the many mosques.

Founded by several cities and to be the capital, the commander Muizz to open the Cairo after he founded the Fatimid state, has been the essence of Sicilian year 358 AH (969 AD) built a wall around the three cities and the designation of the three cities of Cairo, and includes the city of Cairo Fustat, founded by Amr ibn al-Aas year 20 AH, the city founded by the military in favor of Ben Ali Abbasi year 132 AH, and the city Alktaea founded by Ahmed Ibn Tulun in 256 AH, in addition to the neighborhoods that have occurred after the reign of Saladin, yet.

Cairo is the largest city in Africa and the most populous in Africa and the Middle East. It is the city of the province, that is, they occupy the entire area of ​​the province and one city, and at the same time a large city constitute the province alone. Despite being the largest city, but it is one of the smallest provinces of Egypt as mayor. There is also what is known as the Greater Cairo, a semi-official administrative entity includes in addition to the city / town of Giza governorate of Cairo and some of its suburbs and Shubra of Assiut governorate in addition to the former provinces of Helwan and Sixth of October

History

I knew the name of the Pharaonic era of the turnoff to the beautiful port city of the sun and its suburb (hieroglyphs: Online and in Greek: Heliopolis). And is the capital of unified Egypt since King Narmer alone since 3200 years BC. For different periods of time, but since the opening of the Arabs to Egypt led by Amr ibn al-Aas, a capital.

Night Portrait of Saladin Citadel in ancient Egypt

The city of Cairo from more Middle cities which accounted for writing and history where dubbed "Jewel of the East", since the age of Cairo more than a thousand years much, Vhoahid history confirms that the place of this city was the capital of Egypt for most of its history, in the extended across about 20 centuries Cairo was in the broad sense is the capital of Egypt, with some making Cairo the capital due to the year 98 AD, when the sons of Babylon, which are remnants still exist yet fort and when Amr ibn al-Aas came to open Egypt established a new capital Fustat near the fort, then established the city of the military that followed herds as the capital of the state Tulunid in Egypt, and Cairo has established in the era of the Fatimid Caliph al-Muizz, which still bears the same name until today.

Some famous names to Cairo: city of a thousand minarets (so called ancient travelers to the large number of mosques built in) and the city of Egypt unguarded and Islamic Cairo.

Geography

Cairo is located on the sides of the Nile River Islands in the north of Egypt, immediately southeast of the point where the Nile River valley and leaves confined to the desert divided into two branches in the Nile Delta region low.

The oldest part of the city is located east of the river. There, the city publishes the west gradually, and built this western part of the city of Paris model by the ruler of Egypt Khedive Ismail in the middle of the nineteenth century, which featured extensive neighborhoods, public parks, and open areas. The older eastern section of the city differed greatly after the expansion randomly over the centuries, and is filled with small roads and buildings crowded. While filled with western Cairo government by buildings and modern architecture, and became the most important part of Cairo, while the eastern half is which contains the city's history over the centuries because there its mosques and churches Vintage and buildings relics and ancient landmarks, with the knowledge that there Oriental expansions also after the ancient city and an example on the Nasr City district, which is considered one of the most important, the largest and most expensive neighborhoods in Cairo.

And comprehensive water systems also allowed the city eastward expansion into the desert, and there are bridges linking the Nile Islands Bashatrih east and west to Giza, and where there are many government buildings and offices of government officials, expressing bridges Nile is also a link to the city on the outskirts of Giza and Imbaba (part of Greater Cairo).

West Giza - in the desert - no part of Memphis, the ancient cemetery on the Giza plateau where the Pyramids of Giza and the three Sphinx, and just 11 miles (18 km) south of Cairo, the modern site of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis and the cemetery adjacent to the Saqqara, and these cities, and other previous cities located anywhere Cairo City.