Cairo
Imperial capital
capital city of Egypt
Location: 30.0444, 31.2358
What this place is
- Imperial capital — the Fatimid caliphs' capital from 973, and the city the Coptic patriarchs moved their residence to in the eleventh century, leaving Alexandria the title
Who is recorded here
- Eutychius of Alexandria birth · AD 877
- Joseph II of Jerusalem death
In art
- File:Une rue au Caire par Gabriel Toudouze.jpg — Gabriel Toudouze (1844)
- Courtyard of the Painter's House, Cairo — John Frederick Lewis (1851)
- Vue du Caire — Théodore Frère (1861)
- Captive Dove, Kaïro — John Frederick Lewis (1864)
- File:A vendre, esclaves au Caire par Jean-Léon Gérôme.jpg — Jean-Léon Gérôme (1873)
About the place
Cairo is the capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate. It is home to more than 9.8 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world, and the Middle East.
From Wikipedia, retrieved 2026-08-14 · CC BY-SA 4.0