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ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE - Pharos University in Alexandria

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Fatimid Architecture<br />

Al Qahira ( CAIRO ) :<br />

The new royal city of Egypt<br />

established north of Fustat by<br />

the Fatimids upon their<br />

conquest of the country <strong>in</strong> 969.<br />

It had a regular plan runn<strong>in</strong>g<br />

parallel to the Nile, with a ma<strong>in</strong><br />

north-south ma<strong>in</strong> road.

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