Al-Qahirah / Cairo

Maps on our site:

• 1572, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis ..., I-55
  
  
• ~1575, Donato Bertelli, Gran Citta del Cairo
  
  
• 1615, Henry de Beauvau, Relation iournaliere...
  
  
• 1675, G.A. Remondini Viaggio da Venetia ...
  
  
• after 1933, Alexander Nicohosoff, Map of Cairo
  
  

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• Cairo city maps 15th-19th century
  Islamic Cities Historic Maps Collection, Center of Middle Eastren Studies, University of California, Berkeley:
  
  
  Cairo 1400-1500
  
  Cairo 1500-1600
  
  Cairo 1600-1700
  
  Cairo 1700-1800
  
  Cairo 1800-1900

Largest city in Africa; built by Arabs as military camp at Al-Fustat in 642; new part built by Fatimid dynasty 968; reached greatest prosperity as trade & cultural center 13th cen.; taken by Ottoman Turks 1517; held by French 1798-1801; evacuated by British in 1946.

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