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10 maj 2024 · Metropolitan Cairo is made up of the Cairo muḥāfazah (governorate) as well as other districts, some of which belong to neighbouring governorates such as Al-Jīzah and Qalūbiyyah. Area governorate, 83 square miles (214 square km).
- Cultural Life
Cairo - Cultural, Historical, Educational: Cairo has long...
- Development of the City
Cairo - Ancient, Urbanization, Nile: Muḥammad ʿAlī, sent to...
- People
Cairo - Population, Ethnicity, Religion: Cairo’s population,...
- Coptic, Nile Delta, Cairo
Al-Jīzah, muḥāfaẓah (governorate) of Upper Egypt, on the...
- Egypt, Map, & History
al-Fusṭāṭ, capital of the province of Egypt during the...
- Eastern Desert
The Eastern Desert consists of a rolling sandy highland that...
- Giza
Giza, city, capital of Al-Jizah muhafazah (governorate) in...
- Cairo Summary
Cairo , Arabic Al-Qāhirah, City (pop., 2006: city,...
- Cultural Life
för 3 dagar sedan · It is situated at the northeastern end of the line of the three main pyramids at Giza . Initially standing at 146.6 metres (481 feet), the Great Pyramid was the world's tallest human-made structure for more than 3,800 years.
- Hemiunu (presumed)
- c. 2570 BC (Old Kingdom);, 4593 years ago
- Arab states
- Original: 146.6 m (481 ft) or 280 cubits, Current: 138.5 m (454 ft)
För 1 dag sedan · A governorate centered around Tikrit and Samarra in modern-day Iraq, Saladin Governorate, is named after him, as is Salahaddin University in Erbil, the largest city of Iraqi Kurdistan. A suburban community of Erbil, Masif Salahaddin, is also named after him. Few structures associated with Saladin survive within modern cities.
- 1174 – 4 March 1193
- Ayyub ibn Shadi
- Umayyad Mosque, Damascus
- Sunni Islam
för 3 dagar sedan · Baghdad (/ ˈ b æ ɡ d æ d / ⓘ BAG-dad or / b ə ɡ ˈ d æ d / bəg-DAD; Arabic: بَغْدَاد, romanized: Baghdād, [baɣˈdaːd] ⓘ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo.
- 34 m (112 ft)
- 10001 to 10090
- 30 July 762 AD
- Iraq
för 3 dagar sedan · Completion of the Suez Canal in 1869 elevated Egypt as an important world transportation hub. Ostensibly to protect its investments, Britain seized control of Egypt's government in 1882, but the country's nominal allegiance to the Ottoman Empire continued until 1914.
23 apr. 2024 · The GOPP and the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat) defined the borders of the Greater Cairo region in 2012 into the urban mass of Cairo governorate, part of Giza governorate, part of Qalubiya governorate, all then existing NUCs (namely the 6th of October, Sheikh Zayed, the 15th of May, New Cairo, Obour, Shorouk ...
