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Cairo Area
Cairo , which means "The Vanquisher" or "The Triumphant", is the capital city of Egypt. While Al-Qahirah is the official name of the city, in Egyptian Arabic it commonly shares the dialect's name for the country, It has a metropolitan area population of about 17.285 million people. Cairo is the sixteenth most populous metropolitan area in the world. It is also the most populous metropolitan area in Africa.
The city was founded in AD 969 as the royal enclosure for the Fatimid caliphs, while the actual economic and administrative capital was in nearby Fustat. After Fustat was destroyed in 1168/1169 to prevent its capture by the Crusaders, the administrative capital of Egypt moved to Cairo, where it has remained ever since. (...) more....
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sight Pyramids of Gizeh
in Cairo, Egypt
A testament to the power of humanity and ancient Egyptian strength. The capital of the Old Kingdom of Egypt has some extraordinary funerary monuments, including rock tombs, ornate mastabas, temples and...
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sight Great Sphinx of Giza
in Cairo, Egypt
price level: mid-range , opening hours: 07:00 am -19:30 pm Monday to Sunday , address: Pyramid Road, Cairo
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museum / gallery Egyptian Museum
in Cairo, Egypt
The Egyptian Museum is housed in a beautiful historic building at the north end of Midan Tahrir. With its finds of Egyptian and Graeco-Roman objects from the Nile valley, it is the largest and most sign...
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went w/ @afarrag 2 da citadel,Sultan Hassan's Mosque(my fav. place in Cairo),took a quick tour in da area arnd & fnlly went 2 Al-azhar park
2009-09-27
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