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The residential architecture in Historic Cairo covers the area that was built during the Fatimid, Ayyubid, Mamluk, Ottoman, French occupation and even Mohamed Ali periods. [1] Historic Cairo covers an area of around 523.66 ha on the eastern bank of the Nile river and is surrounded by the modern quarters of Greater Cairo .
Heliopolis style is an early 20th-century architectural style developed in the new suburb of Heliopolis in eastern Cairo, Egypt. The Belgian Cairo Electric Railways and Heliopolis Oases Company, responsible for planning and developing the new suburb, created the new style to implement an exclusive distinctiveness to the design of its buildings.
Modern self-built homes, and older rural houses near Ard El Liwa, Giza, with the Giza Pyramids in the background. Even though mathematically more housing than needed is produced in Egypt resulting in millions of vacant homes, [1] large portions of its residents live in inadequate housing that may lack secure tenure, safe drinking water and wastewater treatment, are crowded or are prone to ...
Cairo, the capital of Egypt, is a bustling metropolis that sits on the banks of the River Nile. Home to an estimated 22 million people, the city has more recently expanded into a sprawling jumble ...
Cairo: Egypt [1] Obelisk of Theodosius (a.k.a. Istanbul obelisk) 18.54 m (25.6 m with base) Thutmose III: 1479 – 1425 BC Karnak: Sultanahmet Square: Istanbul: Turkey [1] Tahrir obelisk 17 m: Ramesses II: 1279–1213 BC Tanis: Tahrir Square (2020) Cairo: Egypt [10] [8] Cairo Airport obelisk 16.97 m: Ramesses II: 1279–1213 BC Tanis: Cairo ...
The area is also home to the dorcas gazelle. Parts of this nomination have already been nominated in 2003. [49] Egyptian Museum in Cairo: Cairo: 2021 iv, vi (cultural) The museum was designed by the French architect Marcel Dourgnon as an entry to the 1895 competition to construct a museum to host the vast collection of antiquities.
The oldest well-preserved monument of the Islamic period in Egypt is the Nilometer on the island of Rawda in Cairo, built in 861. [ 42 ] After reaching its apogee, the Abbasid Caliphate, which ruled most of the Muslim world , became fragmented into regional states in the 9th century which were formally obedient to the caliphs but de facto ...
CAIRO — Egypt has accused Netflix of misrepresenting history by casting a Black woman to play Cleopatra, its most famous historical figure, in a new series. “Queen Cleopatra,” which is ...