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Cairo and Governorate
The western bank of the Nile is commonly included within the urban area of Cairo, but it composes the city of Giza and the Giza Governorate.
He was born in 1841 in the village of Hreyya Razna near Zagazig in the Sharqia Governorate, approximately 80 kilometres to the north of Cairo.
* Tura, Egypt, a town in Cairo Governorate
Phase 1 of the project will run from El-Malek El-Saleh Station ( Interchange with Line 1 ) all the way to the October-Oasis Highway Station with a total length of 17 km, passing through Giza Railways Station ( Interchange with Line 2 ); the original plan for phase 1 was for it to start from EL-Malek El-Saleh Station and end at the Grand Egyptian Museum Station with a total length of 10 km but the Ministry of Roads & Transportation decided to extend the Line in their efforts to further connect the Governorate of 6 October to the Greater Cairo Area ; phase 1 also includes the plan to connect the end of Line 4 to the suburbs of 6 October mainly through executing The October 6th Tram system ( The O6T ) which will be by using a Tram-train system supplied with the Alstom Regio-Citadis trams.
* Tura, Egypt, a town in Cairo Governorate
: Cairo is the capital city of the Cairo Governorate and of Egypt.
Category: Cairo Governorate
Egyptian police identified the bomber as Muhammad Sobhi Ali Jidan, originally from Qalyubia Governorate in northern Egypt, but then living in the north Cairo district of Shobra.
Suzanne Mubarak was born in Al Minya Governorate, located on the Nile River about 250 kilometres to the south of Cairo.
Originally a southern suburb of Cairo, it served as the capital of the now defunct Helwan Governorate from April 2008 to April 2011, after which it was re-incorporated into the Cairo Governorate.

Cairo and was
When Dag Hammarskjold was negotiating the Middle East peace after Israel's 1956 invasion of Egypt, he soon found himself speaking the mysterious phrases of Cairo, a language as anarchic as Casey Stengel's.
The reports of President Nasser's pledges which Hammarskjold was relaying from Cairo to Washington became increasingly incomprehensible to other diplomats, including the Israeli Foreign Minister, Mrs. Golda Meir.
At this time, Ifriqiya was in ferment, the Zirid ruler al-Muizz ibn Badis, was openly contemplating breaking with his Shi ' ite Fatimid overlords in Cairo, and the jurists of Kairouan were agitating for him to do so.
In 1167, Nur ad-Din sent Shirkuh back to Egypt and Amalric once again followed him, establishing a camp near Cairo ; Shawar again allied with Amalric and a treaty was signed with the caliph al-Adid himself.
After Gott was killed flying back to Cairo Churchill was persuaded by Brooke, who by this time was Chief of the Imperial General Staff to appoint Montgomery, who had only just been nominated to replace Alexander as commander of the British ground forces for Operation Torch.
Cairo was founded by the Fatimid dynasty in the 10th century AD, but the land composing the present-day city was the site of national capitals whose remnants remain visible in parts of Old Cairo.
The economy of Cairo was ranked first in the Middle East, and 43rd globally by Foreign Policys 2010 Global Cities Index.
For nearly 200 years after Cairo was established, the administrative centre of Egypt remained in Fustat.
Egypt's capital was permanently moved to Cairo, which was eventually expanded to include the ruins of Fustat and the previous capitals of al-Askar and al-Qatta ' i. While the Fustat fire successfully protected the city of Cairo, a continuing power struggle between Shawar, King Amalric I of Jerusalem, and Zengid general Shirkuh led to the downfall of the Fatimid establishment.
The city's status was further diminished after Vasco da Gama discovered a sea route around the Cape of Good Hope, thereby allowing spice traders to avoid Cairo.
Still, when Napoleon arrived in Cairo in 1798, the city's population was less than 300, 000, forty percent lower than it was at the height of Mamluk — and Cairene — influence in the mid-14th century.
The city was devastated during the 1952 Cairo Fire, also known as Black Saturday, which saw the destruction of nearly 700 shops, movie theatres, casinos and hotels in Downtown Cairo.
In 1992, Cairo was hit by a damaging earthquake, that caused 545 deaths, 6512 injuries and left 50, 000 people homeless.
Until the mid-19th century, when the river was tamed by dams, levees, and other controls, the Nile in the vicinity of Cairo was highly susceptible to changes in course and surface level.

Cairo and just
With an additional ten million inhabitants just outside the city, Cairo resides at the centre of the largest metropolitan area in Africa and the Arab World as well as the tenth-largest urban area in the world.
The area around present-day Cairo, especially Memphis, had long been a focal point of Ancient Egypt due to its strategic location just upstream from the Nile Delta.
The land on which Cairo was established in 969 ( present-day Islamic Cairo ) was located underwater just over three hundred years earlier, when Fustat was first built.
* The Fatimids conquer Egypt and move their capital from Kairouan ( in modern Tunisia ) to Fustat, subsequently founding a new capital city just north of Fustat, and naming it Cairo.
It is located in " Islamic Cairo ", on the east side of Muizz Street, just south of Bab Al-Futuh ( the northern gate ).
In November, just prior to recording sessions for what would be a three-song release known as the Def Leppard EP, Kenning abruptly left the band ; he would later form the band Cairo.
Rommel's offensive was eventually stopped at the small railway halt of El Alamein, just 150 miles from Cairo.
The first nome was roughly where modern Aswan is and the twenty-second was at modern Atfih ( Aphroditopolis ), just to the south of Cairo.
Amenhotep III's first recorded act as king — in his Years 1 and 2 — was to open new limestone quarries at Tura, just south of Cairo and at Dayr al-Barsha in Middle Egypt in order to herald his great building projects.
In 1965, Gayoom met Nasreena Ibrahim, a student who had just arrived in Cairo from the Maldives for her studies.
However, expansion did not just take place on the domestic market, as Aerosvit introduced new routes from its base in Kiev, to Beijing, Baku, Chisinau, Cairo, and St. Petersburg.
In the meantime, the rest of the expedition had dispersed ; Stanley went to Zanzibar and then to Cairo, where he wrote the 900 pages of In Darkest Africa in just 50 days.
Moreover, governorates may comprise just one city, as in the case of Cairo or Alexandria.
Bashar al-Asad's rise to power in Syria in June 2000 just hours after Hafez al-Asad's death, sparked a heated debate in the Egyptian press regarding the prospects for a similar scenario occurring in Cairo.
After returning to Cairo in the middle of 1942 only to discover that his LAFC had been disbanded while he was away, Popski was invited to join an LRDG raid in the area he had just left, learning much about their ways, lost the little finger on his left hand to an Italian bullet, and won a Military Cross ( MC ).
During the seven years of his 19, 000-kilometre journey ( 1046 – 1052 ), Nasir visited Mecca four times, and performed all the rites and observances of a zealous pilgrim ; but he was far more attracted by Cairo, the capital of Egypt, and the residence of the Fatimid caliph-imam Ma ' ad al-Mustansir Billah, the Imam of the Ismaili Shi ' a Muslims, which was just then waging a deadly war against the Abbasid caliph of Baghdad, and Toghrul Beg the Seljuk, the great defender of the Sunni creed.
Though a railway company by name, the company played just as great a role as a property development company once the company acquired a very large area ( 25 square kilometers ) northeast of Cairo, where the ancient city of Heliopolis once stood.
The discovery of El Gran Cairo, in March 1517, was without a doubt a crucial moment in the Spanish perception of the natives of the Americas: until then, nothing had resembled the stories of Marco Polo, or the promises of Columbus, which prophesied Cathay, or even the Garden of Paradise, just past every cape or river.
It is said that her first time in a plane was when she worked as a receptionist at Cairo airport and she hid in a 2-seater plane, just to experience what it was like to fly.
Born in the small Egyptian town of Wana in 1924, Samia's family moved just months later to Cairo and settled near the Khan El-Khalili bazaar.

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