cairo the present capital of egypt is located closest to the ancient city of fustat.
cairo the present capital of egypt is located closest to the ancient city of fustat.
cairo the present capital of egypt is located closest to which ancient city?
fustat
cairo ( ; , ; ) is the capital of egypt. the city's metropolitan area is one of the largest in africa, the largest in the middle east and 15th-largest in the world, and is associated with ancient egypt, as the famous giza pyramid complex and the ancient city of memphis are located in its geographical area. located near the nile delta, modern cairo was founded in 969 ad by the fatimid dynasty, but the land composing the present-day city was the site of ancient national capitals whose remnants remain visible in parts of old cairo. cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand minarets" for its preponderance of islamic architecture. cairo is considered a world city with a "beta +" classification according to gawc.
cairo
because of the nile's movement, the newer parts of the city—garden city, downtown cairo, and zamalek—are located closest to the riverbank. the areas, which are home to most of cairo's embassies, are surrounded on the north, east, and south by the older parts of the city. old cairo, located south of the centre, holds the remnants of fustat and the heart of egypt's coptic christian community, coptic cairo. the boulaq district, which lies in the northern part of the city, was born out of a major 16th-century port and is now a major industrial centre. the citadel is located east of the city centre around islamic cairo, which dates back to the fatimid era and the foundation of cairo. while western cairo is dominated by wide boulevards, open spaces, and modern architecture of european influence, the eastern half, having grown haphazardly over the centuries, is dominated by small lanes, crowded tenements, and islamic architecture.
cairo