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Facts about Cairo

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Inaugurated in May 2005, Al-Azhar Park is located adjactent to Cairo's Darb al-Ahmar neighborhood.

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Cairo's population exploded, increasing from 374,000 in 1882 to 1,312,000 by 1937.

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Cairo (Arabic: al-Q?hirah) is the capital of Egypt.

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Cairo remained the central city of Egypt throughout the period of British rule and afterwards.

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Cairo has a number of sporting teams that compete in national leagues.

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The era of colonization which began in 1882 saw the continuation of the rebuilding of Cairo.

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The current location of Cairo was too far from the ancient course of the Nile to support a city.

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Today Cairo is Africa's most populous city and the Arab world's cultural center.

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Laws against the export of these treasures has meant that the Egyptian Museum in Cairo is the only place in the world that many items can be seen.

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There he saw the newly redesigned city of Baron Haussmann and, with funds from a booming cotton trade, decided to rebuild Cairo on the model of a European capital.

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The first settlement on the location of modern Cairo was a Roman fort, known as Babylon Fort, built about 150 C.E..

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The Khedivial Opera House or Royal Opera House was the original opera house in Cairo, Egypt.

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The Seljuks captured Cairo in the mid-1100s, and Saladin and his successors expanded the city further, including the construction of its massive Cairo Citadel.

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The books' titles are taken from actual streets in Cairo, the city of Mahfouz's childhood and youth.

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Napoleon conquered Egypt in 1798, and Cairo was quickly surrendered to him by its Mameluk rulers.

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Based on these cultural traditions, the Egyptian Association of Film Writers and Critics launched the first Cairo International Film Festival in Cairo on August 16 1976.

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The Al-Azhar mosque, founded the same year, and its accompanying university, made Cairo a center of Islamic learning and philosophy.

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Approximately 11 miles (18 km) to the south of modern Cairo is the site of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis and adjoining necropolis of Saqqara.

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Most of the sports federations of the country are located in the Cairo suburbs, including the Egyptian Football Association.

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Bridges also cross the Nile attaching the city to the suburbs of Giza and Imbabah (part of the Cairo conurbation).

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The headquarters of the Confederation of African Football was previously located in Cairo before relocating to its new headquarters in 6th October City.

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The city of Cairo was founded in the year 969 by the Fatimid Imam-Caliphs who were ancestors of the Aga Khan.

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Both teams are champions on the African continent and the Arab World, and play their home games at Cairo International Stadium, Egypt's largest stadium.

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President Mubarak inaugurated the new Cairo Opera House of the Egyptian National Cultural Center on October 10, 1988, seventeen years after the Royal Opera House had been destroyed by fire.

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The Cairo Trilogy is a trilogy of novels set in Cairo, written by Egyptian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.

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Cairo is the 16th-most-populous metropolitan area in the world, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 15.2 million people.