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Cairo ( / ˈkaɪroʊ / ⓘ KY-roh; Arabic: القاهرة, romanized : al-Qāhirah) [6] is the capital of Egypt and the city-state Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, home to 10 million people. [7]
Egypt has the largest Muslim population in the Arab world, and the sixth world's largest Muslim population, and home for (5%) of the world's Muslim population. Egypt also has the largest Christian population in the Middle East and North Africa. Egypt is a predominantly Sunni Muslim country with Islam as its state religion. The percentage of ...
The Egyptian Museum of Antiquities contains many important pieces of ancient Egyptian history. It houses the world's largest collection of Pharaonic antiquities. The Egyptian government established the museum built in 1835 near the Ezbekieh Garden and later moved to the Cairo Citadel. In 1855, Archduke Maximilian of Austria was given all of the ...
52,366 ha. Old Cairo ( Arabic: مصر القديمة, romanized : Miṣr al-Qadīma, Egyptian pronunciation: Maṣr El-ʾAdīma) is a historic area in Cairo, Egypt, which includes the site of a Roman -era fortress, the Christian settlement of Coptic Cairo, and the Muslim-era settlements pre-dating the founding of Cairo proper in 969 AD.
Islamic Cairo (Arabic: قاهرة المعز, romanized: Qāhira al-Muʿizz, lit. 'Al-Mu'izz's Cairo'), or Medieval Cairo, officially Historic Cairo (القاهرة التاريخية al-Qāhira tārīkhiyya), refers mostly to the areas of Cairo, Egypt, that were built from the Muslim conquest in 641 CE until the city's modern expansion in the 19th century during Khedive Ismail's rule, namely ...
Downtown Cairo ( Egyptian Arabic: وسط البلد Wust al-Balad, "middle of town") is the colloquial name given to the 19th-century western expansion of Egypt 's capital Cairo, between the historic medieval Cairo, and the Nile, which became the commercial center of the city during the 20th century. [1] Given its rich architectural heritage ...
The Greater Cairo Region ( GCR; Arabic: القاهرة الكبرى, romanized : Al-Qāhira al-Kubrā) is a metropolitan area centered around Cairo, Egypt. It comprises the entirety of the Cairo Governorate, the cities of Imbaba [b] and Giza in the Giza Governorate, and the city Shubra El Kheima in Qalyubia Governorate. [4] [5] Its definition ...
Cairo's political influence diminishes after the Ottomans supplant Mamluk power over Egypt (1517) Under the Ottomans, Cairo expands south and west from its center around the Citadel. Modern Cairo (1863–present) British invasion (1882) Egypt's independence (1922) Egyptian revolution of 1952. Egyptian revolution of 2011.