Timeline of Cairo

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Cairo, Egypt.

Prior to 19th century

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Predynastic Period6000–3000 BC
Early Dynastic Period3150–2686 BC
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1st Intermediate Period2181–2055 BC
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2nd Intermediate Period1650–1550 BC
New Kingdom1550–1069 BC
3rd Intermediate Period1069–664 BC
Late Period664–332 BC
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Ikhshidid dynasty935–969
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Map of Cairo, 1170.
Map of Cairo, 1572

19th century

View of Greater Cairo, drawn by Henry Salt in 1805

(pp. 66–67) by Jean Vercoutter.]]

  • Cairo – panorama from the Citadel 1895
    Cairo – panorama from the Citadel 1895
  • Cairo Mosque 1895
    Cairo Mosque 1895
  • Cairo, soldiers and crowd in front of building, 1895
    Cairo, soldiers and crowd in front of building, 1895
  • Cairo – panorama from the Citadel, 1895
    Cairo – panorama from the Citadel, 1895
  • Cairo, the Citadel, 1895
    Cairo, the Citadel, 1895

20th century

1900s–1940s

Map of Cairo, 1933

1950s–1990s

21st century

2000s

2010s

2020s

See also

References

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Bibliography

Published in 18th–19th century

  • Carsten Niebuhr (1792). "Of the City of Cairo". Travels through Arabia. Half-title:Niebuhr's travels through Arabia and other countries in the East. Translated by Robert Heron. Edinburgh: R. Morison and Son. hdl:2027/hvd.hxj9mv – via HathiTrust.
  • C.F. Volney (1807). "De la ville du Kaire". Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie (in French). Paris: Courcier.
  • H.A.S. Dearborn (1819), "Grand Cairo", A Memoir on the Commerce and Navigation of the Black Sea, Boston: Wells & Lilly
  • Gardner Wilkinson (1847), "Cairo", Hand-book for Travellers in Egypt, J. Murray, OCLC 23931478
  • Edward Balfour (1885). "Cairo". Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia (3rd ed.). London: B. Quaritch.
  • Library, Boston Public (1893), "Egypt: Places and Cities: Cairo", Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
  • Leo Africanus; John Pory (1896), "Cairo", in Robert Brown (ed.), History and Description of Africa, vol. 3, London: Hakluyt Society, OCLC 2649691

Published in 20th century

  • "Cairo", Chambers's Encyclopaedia, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901
  • "Cairo", Egypt: Handbook for Travellers (5th ed.), K. Baedeker, 1902, OCLC 1384290
  • Stanley Lane-Poole (1902), The Story of Cairo, London: J.M. Dent & Co., OL 7246281M
  • D.S. Margoliouth (1907), Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus, London: Chatto & Windus, OL 23283598M
  • "Cairo (Egypt)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 953–957.
  • Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Cairo", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
  • Mrs. R.L. Devonshire (1917), Rambles in Cairo, Cairo: Sphinx Printing Press, OL 22891093M
  • Gaston Wiet (1964), Cairo, city of art and commerce, US: University of Oklahoma Press, OL 5917631M
  • Malise Ruthven (1980), Cairo, Great Cities, Time-Life Books, OL 7775805M
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  • André Raymond (2000). Cairo. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-00316-0.

Published in 21st century

  • Julia Elyachar (2003). "Mappings of Power: The State, NGOs, and International Organizations in the Informal Economy of Cairo". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 45 (3): 571–605. JSTOR 3879462.
  • "Cairo". Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report 2003. United Nations Human Settlements Programme and University College London. 2003.
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  • Seif El Rashidi (2004), "Chronology of Cairo", in Stefano Bianca; Philip Jodidio (eds.), Cairo: Revitalising a Historic Metropolis, Turin: Umberto Allemandi & C. for Aga Khan Trust for Culture, pp. 244–245
  • Benedicte Florin (2005). "Urban Policies in Cairo: From Speeches on New Cities to the Adjustment Practices of Ordinary City Dwellers". In Abdoumaliq Simone; Abdelghani Abouhani (eds.). Urban Africa: Changing Contours of Survival in the City. London: Zed Books. ISBN 1842775936.
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  • Omnia el Shakry (2006), "Cairo as Capital of Socialist Revolution?", in Diane Singerman; Paul Amar (eds.), Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, And Urban Space In The New Globalized Middle East, American Univ in Cairo Press, ISBN 9789774249280
  • Clifford Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Cairo". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 9789047423836.
  • Bruce E. Stanley; Michael R.T. Dumper, eds. (2008), "Cairo", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, US: ABC-CLIO, ISBN 9781576079201
  • Gabor Agoston; Bruce Alan Masters, eds. (2009). "Cairo". Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. Facts on File. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-4381-1025-7.
  • "Cairo". Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture. Oxford University Press. 2009. p. 321+. ISBN 9780195309911.
  • Gerhard Böwering, ed. (2013). "Cairo". Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought. Princeton University Press. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-691-13484-0.

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