2006-08-11 00:06:21 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ Egypt
Cairo became the capital of Egypt when the North African Shiite Fatimid Dynasty conquered Egypt in 972. During that time they built a new capital, Al-Mansureya, north of the old settlement. Their leader, Al-Muez Ledin-Ellah, renamed the city Al-Qahirah ( transliteration of Cairo) after the planet Mars which was rising on the day the city was founded.
2006-08-11 03:31:38 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ lani s 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
El Fustat (Old Cairo) was founded by Arabs about in about AD 642, and Al Qahira in about 1000 by the Fatimid ruler Gowhar. Cairo was the capital of the Ayyubid dynasty, one of whose sultans, Saladin, built the Citadel in the late 1100s. Under the Mamelukes (1250–1517) the city prospered, but declined in the 16th century after conquest by the Turks. It became the capital of the virtually-autonomous kingdom of Egypt established by Mehmet Ali in 1805. During World War II it was the headquarters of the Allied forces in north Africa.
2006-08-11 01:17:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cairo itself was founded in 969 by the Fatimid general Jauhar Al Rumi to replace nearby Al Qatai (established in the 9th cent. by an Abbasid governor of Egypt) as the capital of Egypt.
2006-08-11 07:22:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
All the information is correct except that unlike what wikkipedia says...it's not the real reason...Cairo was called "Al Quahirra" meaning the vanquisher or the defeater..Astronomical reasons are in doubt but this is the TRUE reason it's called that way...otherwise any other info about when it was made capitol is correct according to my knowledge...
2006-08-11 03:40:09 · answer #4 · answered by Diablous 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi a long time ago.....
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2006-08-11 00:39:51 · answer #5 · answered by eejonesaux 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋