In order to destroy the opponents, these cities had to be taken as well and so the Assyrians soon mastered Siege warfare-Esarhaddon claims to have taken Memphis, the capital of Egypt in less than a day, demonstrating the ferocity and skill of Assyrian siege tactics at this point in time:
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:First one that comes to mind-- hope this isn't too much of a stretch-- is Cairo, Illinois, which is a river port ( and of course Cairo is the capital of Egypt ) . ( talk ) 18 : 31, 23 December 2010 ( UTC)
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Cairo was intended as a royal enclosure for the Fatimid caliph and his army, though the actual administrative and economic capital of Egypt was in cities such as Fustat until 1169 . After Egypt, the Fatimids continued to conquer the surrounding areas until they ruled from Tunisia to Syria, as well as Sicily.
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The British force on the 14th continued their march towards the capital of Egypt and on their way captured a French armed vessel and sixteen Feluccas conveying wine, brandy and clothing listed as around ?000 in sterling and 150 troops along with heavy pieces of ordnance which were headed from Cairo to Er-Rahmaniyeh.
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Cairo was intended as a royal enclosure for the Fatimid caliph and his army, though the actual administrative and economic capital of Egypt was in cities such as Fustat until 1169 . After Egypt, the Fatimids continued to conquer surrounding areas until they ruled from Tunisia to Syria and even crossed the Mediterranean into Sicily and southern Italy.
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Ay is the last 13th Dynasty pharaoh to be attested in Lower Egypt, and most scholars therefore contend that he abandoned Itjtawy, the capital of Egypt since the reign of Amenemhat I ( c . 1980 BC ), in favor of Thebes as he lost control of the Delta region to the 14th Dynasty . or the second king of this dynasty . }}
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Rabbi Nathan taught that the Egyptians buried Joseph in the capital of Egypt in the mausoleum of the kings, as reports, " they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt . " Later, Moses stood among the coffins and cried out to Joseph, crying that the oath to redeem God's children that God swore to Abraham had reached its fulfillment.
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"' Al-Qam ?i "'( Arabic :'DB7' & @ 9 ) was the short-lived Tulunid capital of Egypt, founded by Ahmad ibn Tulun in the year 868 CE . Al-Qata'i was located immediately to the northeast of the previous capital, al-Askar, which in turn was adjacent to the settlement of Fustat.
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One of these subsidiary pyramids is known to be that of Amenemhat's cousin, Khaba II . The site which is in the vicinity of the oasis of the Faiyum, midway between Dahshur and Meidum, and about 100 kilometres south of Cairo, is believed to be in the vicinity of the ancient city of Itjtawy ( the precise location of which remains unknown ), which served as the capital of Egypt during the Twelfth Dynasty.
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During the seven years of his 19, 000-kilometre journey ( 1046 1052 ), Nasir visited Mecca four times, and performed all the rites and observances of a zealous pilgrim; but he was far more attracted by Cairo, the capital of Egypt, and the residence of the Fatimid caliph-imam Ma'ad al-Mustansir Billah, the Imam of the Ismaili Shi'a Muslims, which was just then waging a deadly war against the Abbasid caliph of Baghdad, and Toghrul Beg the Seljuk, the great defender of the Sunni creed.
