Cairo Day Tours
Cairo is the capital of the Arab Republic of Egypt, which is the most important cities, a population of 20 million and a half people. Inhabited by more than a quarter of Egypt's population of 75 million, and population density to more than 15 thousand people per square kilometer, and historically named after the city of a thousand minarets of the many mosques. Founded Muizz Fatimid to be his capital, was built by his commander essence of Sicilian year AH 358 (969 m), and now includes the city of Fustat, which was founded by Amr Ibn El-Aas year 20 AH, and the city of Lashkar founded by Saleh Bin Ali Abbasi year 132 AH, and the city Alktaea founded by Ahmed Ibn Tulun 256 AH, in addition to the Fatimid Cairo, and neighborhoods that had occurred after the Fatimid era until now.
Cairo is now the largest city and the most numerous Arab population in Africa and the Middle East as well. Cairo, conservative city, any province, they occupy the entire area of the city and one, and at the same time a big city a province in its own right. There is also what is known as the City of Greater Cairo, a semi-official administrative entity includes in addition to the City / Cairo, Giza Governorate and some of its suburbs and Shubra Al Khaimah Qaliubiya.
The importance of location of the city at the head of the Delta to the old times, it confirms the link between the Delta and Upper Egypt on the one hand, and between Eastern and Western on the other hand, just before the top of the Delta, away western edge of the plateau east slowly towards the east, leaving the plain wide somewhat, I grew up in Cairo and has evolved and thrived and expanded area over the centuries.