EGYPT LANDMARKS

Cairo Arab city with a prominent place among the world's cities, they are very old at the age of human civilization and is uniquely led to the exchange and influence with other civilizations as they were still meeting place for Arab and Islamic culture, along with the old city has a glorious past Cairo reflect the modern renaissance of the enormous taking place in the capital of Egypt at the hands of the Egyptians.

The city of Cairo charm, dignity, which is common in a deep sense of human rights and the continuing march of pride in this heritage to the witness of many civilizations. Every place where a difference of one of the periods of history, it seems to be the only city in the world where there are traces of four cultures: the Pharaonic, and Romanian, and Coptic, and Islamic - a pot Thtwem all in one unique in the variety and unity at the same time.

Pharaonic Cairo:

Cairo's history and individuality of their special character is a human entity and Umraniye always flowing movement, life, dating back to the site of the city before the emergence of the name of Cairo itself, the beginnings of this city, beginning on the West Bank Of the Nile - the beginning of the Older Cairo - In about the year 4225 BC. M the first unit between the two countries (Delta - level) by the population of the eastern part of the Delta who have chosen the site located a few miles north of Cairo and the site is the city of "Un" old known to the Greeks as Heliopolis, known to residents of Cairo now known as Ain Shams University.

Flourished in this city, astronomy, medicine, engineering, and became a leading center for ancient religions and the knowledge revolution has grown on the banks of the Nile Egyptian Fasttaa a link to the laws of natural phenomena and processes in agriculture reached to the creation of the solar calendar, which divides the agricultural year into four chapters, the days and adjust the timing and timing agriculture with extreme precision.

When able to "Meena" Governor of Upper Egypt and the establishment of solid unity and united the two countries and continued until this day, over five thousand years ago, established a new capital Minna "Memphis" is located 22 kilometers south of Cairocontemporary and was known as "white wall" until the sixth century century BC to the Egyptians called the name "of Navarre," the same name that the Greeks letters became "Memphis".

Found in the place of this ancient capital is now the village of "dead hostage" and the Greeks know as the "city of a thousand section" Behrmha Saqqara area beside the runway and landfill is famous, and took in the ancient capital of the extension on the eastern shore of the Nile until they reached the site of Helwan Currently, the site remained "Memphis" controlled throughout the Pharaonic era and the subsequent eras of the Ptolemies Romans on the caravan route coming from the valleys of the Eastern Desert.

Exchanged ancient capitals site branch of the Nile which is the strategic value of the capital, is the "Fortress of Babylon," now known as ancient Egypt - one of the most significant, he has been the seat of the Roman army as well as he retains memories of early Christianity inEgypt.

Islamic Cairo:

At a time when the Arabs entered Egypt under the leadership of "Amr ibn al-Aas" in 640 AD chosen the same strategic location and civilized at the fork The Nile Delta to the capital, where he founded the first Arab-Islamic "Fustat" in the vast place which is located to the north of the fortress of Babylon .. A site is important in terms of military and physical .. And established "Amr Ibn Al-Aas" in the center of the city of Fustat, the old mosque which is the first mosque established not only in Egypt but in the whole of Africa.

Abbasids founded a center to another state is located in the north-east of Fustat and was named "military" in 751 AD and the days pass, called the military-Fustat became a large city.

The foundation for "Ahmad ibn Tulun" in the era of the city Ataiwlaunayn "Alktaea" in AD 870 on the north side of the "military" and stayed in the middle of the whole mosque is one of the biggest mosques in the Muslim world and most spectacular city has been divided into Alktaea plans or herds of each piece, including a group of population between them and the Association of sex work.

The foundations of the essence of the Sicilian city of Cairo in 969 AD - 358 e and built a fence around a square, the length of each side of the ribs 1200 square yards 340 acres and built in the middle of this great palace of the area reached 70 square acres of the city has expanded gradually and had grown significantly and has assumed its remarkable in light of the Fatimid caliphs and contacted the premises of the premises the previous three Islamic cities (Fustat - the military - Alktaea) and became together, form the largest cities in the Islamic Middle Ages .. Became the Cairo of the most important cultural centers of that time was the establishment of "House of Wisdom" and a home for the books in the palace of succession is one of the largest known in the medieval Fatimid also established Al-Azhar mosque, the first architectural work of art still exists today and became world famous and is central prominent in the Islamic world.

Soon led Cairo to lead the world in the era of the Muslim Saladin was the protective shield for the Arabs and Islam, as signed by the heaviest burden in driving the Crusaders from the Levant .. Salah al-Din took the capitals of Islamic Egypt, as well as the previous four mountain fortress built to protect the Cairo and one wall extends from the Fatimid Cairo in the north to the area south of the Prophet after the city of Fustat are still many parts of it survived to this day .. Has takenthe castle since the time of Salah al-Din house of the King until the age of Khedive Ismail, while the relocation of the power to Abdeen Palace.

Impressed Cairo Ottoman Turks when they entered in 1517 because of what it was Imran ample space and architectural installations are too many luxury building distributed in the city's many grown and packed in successive historical eras.

Modern Cairo:

Cairo moved in the life of the Middle Ages to contact the European civilization through the French campaign on Egypt in 1798 and then in the context of building a modern state in Egypt, beginning in 1805.Have seen Cairo in this period a new era in architecture and re-planning of a new line with modern life.

The landmarks of Cairo: