Cairo

Cairo is the capital city of Egypt, one of the four great ancient civilizations, is located at the mouth of the Nile River Delta.

Release time : 2016-05-17 17:01:08

source : WTCF

, most of the citizens had left expect for the priests. The Heliopolis was deserted soon, only the Obelisk was left to witness her history. By the time of the Old Kingdom era, Memphis, located 30 kilometers southwest of of Cairo, at the west side of the Nile river, being the capital of the Lower Egypt the first Nome of Aneb-Hetch previously, became the capital of the united Egypt kingdom. Before the Middle Kingdom moved its capital to Thebes, Memphis had been the political and religious center of the kingdom. Later, although Memphis was not the capital city, it was still an important city until the Arabians conquered Egypt in 7 BC. In 642, the Islamic army demolished the Memphis city, moving the materials to where it is today, south of Cairo, to build a military city, Misr, later renamed as Fustat. In 868, Emir of the Tulunid built another capital city named Al-Qatta'I to the north of Fustat. In 905, the Abbasid kingdom conquered Al-Qatta'I and the Tulunid had finished. In 969, the Fatimid Caliphate sent its military officer Qiao Haier to conquer Egypt under the rule of the Abbasid. In 973, it moved its capital here and called it Cairo. Later it was under the effort of the Fatimid, Ayyubid, Mameluke and some other kingdoms which also set their capital here (at the same time the architecture which was regarded as gentile architecture around Cairo was further damaged) that Cairo was developed into the central city of Egypt and even Middle East. By 1517 when the Mameluke kingdom was defeated by the Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, Cairo became the capital city of the Egyptian Province of the Ottoman Empire. Since then, it started to decline until the modern ear came. The Egyptian civilization is very ancient, all the ancient Egyptians, the Greeks, the Babylonians and the Romans have left their marks. The Muslims from the Arabian Peninsula brought Islamism to Egypt. Khedive Ismail Ali brought Egypt into modernization. Cairo can be regarded as an open-air museum