English Wikipedia - The Free Encycl...
Download this dictionary
Cairo
Cairo
( ; ,
al-Qahirah
) is the capital and
largest city
of
Egypt
.
Greater Cairo
is the
largest metropolitan area in the Middle East
and the
Arab world
, and
15th-largest
in the world, and is associated with
ancient Egypt
, as the famous
Giza pyramid complex
and the ancient city of
Memphis
are located in its geographical area. Located near the
Nile Delta
, modern Cairo was founded in 969 CE by
Jawhar al-Siqilli
("the Sicilian") of the
Fatimid dynasty
, but the land composing the present-day city was the site of ancient national capitals whose remnants remain visible in parts of
Old Cairo
. Cairo has long been a center of the region's political and cultural life, and is nicknamed "the city of a thousand
minarets
" for its preponderance of
Islamic architecture
.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License