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  2. List of Egyptian castles, forts, fortifications and city walls

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    Circa 100 BC Ptolemaic Fort of Tal Abou Sayfi, South of Qantara Sharq city. [7] 200 AD Roman Fort of Tal Abou Sayfi, South of Qantara Sharq city (by Emperor Maximinus Thrax). [7] Unknown time Roman Lahfen castle near Al-Arish. [7] Saint Catherine's Monastery fortification, Mount Sinai, Sinai Peninsula. 640 AD Farma citadel. [7] [29] [32]

  3. Bab Zuweila - Wikipedia

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    Bab Zuweila or Bab Zuwayla (Arabic: باب زويلة) is one of three remaining gates in the city walls of historic Cairo in Egypt. It was also known as Bawabat al-Mitwali or Bab al-Mitwali . The gate was built in 1092 by the Fatimid vizier Badr al-Jamali .

  4. List of ancient Egyptian towns and cities - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of known ancient Egyptian towns and cities. [1] The list is for sites intended for permanent settlement and does not include fortresses and other locations of intermittent habitation. a capital of ancient Egypt

  5. Fortifications of Cairo - Wikipedia

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    Cairo was founded as a palace-city in 969 by the Fatimid Caliphate. Jawhar al-Siqilli, the Fatimid general who led the conquest of Egypt, oversaw the construction of the city's original walls, which were built of mudbrick. [1] [2] According to later medieval sources, these first city walls, which had a roughly rectangular outline, had eight gates.

  6. Architecture of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Military architecture was the supreme expression of the Ayyubid period. The most radical change Saladin implemented in Egypt was enclosing Cairo and Fustat within a single city wall. [51] Some fortification techniques were learned from the Crusaders, such as curtain walls following the natural topography.

  7. Shunet El Zebib - Wikipedia

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    North-eastern wall with well preserved niches. Shunet El Zebib is made of hardened mudbricks. It consists of two rectangular surrounding walls, interlaced like a shoe box. The outer wall measures 137 × 77 m and is c. 5 m thick and 12 m high. The inner wall (perimeter wall) measures 123 × 56 m and is c. 3 m thick and 8 m high.

  8. List of ancient Egyptian sites - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of ancient Egyptian sites, throughout Egypt and Nubia. Sites are listed by their classical name whenever possible, if not by their modern name, and lastly with their ancient name if no other is available.

  9. Bab al-Nasr (Cairo) - Wikipedia

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    The original Bab al-Nasr was built south of the present one by Fatimid general Jawhar as-Siqilli during the reign of the Fatimid caliph al-Mu'izz, when the city was first laid out in 969. Later, the vizier Badr al-Jamali, under Caliph al-Mustansir, enlarged the city and rebuilt the walls in the late 11th century. He replaced the first gate with ...