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Cairo (Arabic, القاهرة, romanized, al-Qāhirah) is the capital city of Egypt and has an estimated metropolitan area population of 16-20 million.
The first settlement on the location of modern Cairo was a Roman fort, known as Babylon Fort, built about AD 150, built near the settlement known as Babylon-in-Egypt, which lay close to an ancient Egyptian canal from the Nile to the Red Sea.
The Cairo metro was greatly expanded in the mid-1990s with the building of Line Two, from Shoubra to Cairo University.
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 Cairo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cairo, Missouri Cairo is a village located in 2000 census, the village had a total population of 293.
Cairo, Ohio Cairo is a village located in 2000 census, the village had a total population of 499.
Cairo Trilogy The Cairo Trilogy is a Naguib Mahfouz.
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 Cairo - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cairo is located on the banks and islands of the Nile River in the north of Egypt,immediately south of the point where the river leaves its desert-bound valley and breaks into three branches into the low-lyingNile Delta region.
While western Cairo is dominated by the government buildings and modern architecture, the eastern half is filled withhundreds of ancient mosques that act as landmarks.
Cairo's population exploded, increasing from 374,000 in 1882 to 1,312,000 by 1937.The city was dominated by westerners, however, and city planners tended to emphasise Christian cathedrals over mosques.
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 Cairo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cairo (Arabic: القاهرة; romanized: al-Qāhirah) is the capital city of Egypt (and previously the United Arab Republic) and has a metropolitan area population of approximately 15.2 million people.
Cairo is the thirteenth most populous metropolitan area in the world.
Cairo is located on the banks and islands of the Nile River in the north of Egypt, immediately south of the point where the river leaves its desert-bound valley and breaks into three branches into the low-lying Nile Delta region.
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 cairo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cairo is located on the banks and islands of the Nile River in the north of Egypt, immediately south of the point where the river leaves its desert-bound valley and breaks into three branches into the low-lying Delta region.
Cairo is the only African city with a metro rail mass transport system.
On all Cairo metros, the first car of each train is reserved for women.
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 Cairo [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cairo is the thirteenth most populous metropolitan area This page lists the 101 largest metropolitan areas of the world by population.
Cairo is located on the banks and islands of the Nile River The Nile (Arabic: النيل an-nīl), in Africa, is one of the two longest rivers on Earth.
Naguib Mahfouz was born in the Gamaliya quarter of Cairo.
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 Cairo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cairo (Arabic, القاهرة, romanized, al-Qāhirah) is the capital city of Egypt and has a metropolitan area population of around 16 million.
Cairo is the only city in Africa with a metro system.
Cairo Police Department - A six person department serving a population of 499.
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 Cairo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cairo (Arabic,القاهرة, romanized,al-Qāhirah) is the capital city of Egypt and has an estimated metropolitan area population of 16-20 million.
The city was especially burdened by refugees fromthe various wars with Israel : much of the population of the Sinai penninsula and the cities along the Suez Canal left for Cairo between 1967 and 1978.
Cairo's first tram line was constructed in 1898.At that time, it was one of the first built, even before New York City 's;in addition, the tram was the first north-south public transportation route in Cairo.
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 Read about Cairo at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Cairo and learn about Cairo here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cairo's population exploded, increasing from 374,000 in 1882 to 1,312,000 by
Egyptian Museum in Cairo is the only place in the world that many items can be seen.
Secretary-General of the United Nations, was born in Cairo.
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 Cairo Article, Cairo Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cairo is located on the banks and islands of the Nile River in the north of Egypt,immediately south of the point where the river leaves its desert-bound valley and breaks into three branches into the low-lying Delta region.
While western Cairo is dominated by the government buildings andmodern architecture, the eastern half is filled with hundreds of ancient Mosques that act as landmarks.
The first settlement on the location of modern Cairo was a Roman fort, known as Babylon Fort, built about AD 150, built near the settlement known as Babylon-in-Egypt, which lay closeto an ancient Egyptian canal from the Nile to the Red Sea.
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 Cairo (disambiguation) - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The most famous Cairo is the capital of Egypt.
Cairo was a code name for what was supposed to be a very advanced version of a Microsoft Operating System, but the project never resulted in a final product as of July 28 2004.
This is a disambiguation page – a navigational aid that lists other pages which might otherwise share the same title.
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 Bambooweb: Cairo
Tanis after he had united the two kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt, although the capital later moved to Heliopolis, further south to Thebes, and, under the Ptolemaic dynasty, Alexandria.
Haussmann and, funded by a booming cotton trade, decided to rebuild Cairo on the model of a European capital.
Sinai peninsula and the cities along the Suez Canal left for Cairo between 1967 and 1978.
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 Cairo at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cairo, Egypt is an amazing city full of life and movement, and it is...
Cairo, the Jewel of the Orient, the City of the Thousand Minarets, and the Melting Pot of Ancient...
Cairo - the Triumphant City - is the glorious capital of Egypt, the cradle...
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 info: CAIRO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cairo Re Industria - Parco industriale sulle aree dello stabilimento dismesso Enichem: disponibili terreni edificabili e capannoni lungo il torrente Bormida..
The Big Trip - London to Cairo via Heartbreak - London to Cairo via Heartbreak - One Australian's harrowing journey into heartbreak and hell in the Mediteranean and the Middle East..
Egy.com - Cairo's Recollections Online - Cairo's Recollections Online - Samir Raafat offers a variety of articles, photos, and references dealing with 19th and 20th century aspects of Cairo, Egypt's 1000-year-old capital -- its architecture, landmarks, character, people and problems..
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 CAIRO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
August 20, 2005 CAIRO, Egypt Walled off from its well-to-do neighbors in their apartment blocks and lies the darkest corner of Cairo's underside a place where daily life.
Pallid, marked with sores and dressed in tattered clothing, the two boys, fresh from another night on Cairo’s unforgiving streets, are dead to the world.
Cairo refuses to add the clause and offers only an oral promise..
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For verbs, the attributes include its segment, position in the sentence, the subcategorization type (from a set of 30 types), its arguments, its base form (when inflected), and its grammatical role (when used as an adjective).
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 Cairo - Surch
The first settlement on the location of modern Cairo was a Roman fort, known as Babylon Fort, built c.
The Seljuks caputured Cairo in the mid 1100s, and Saladin and his successors expanded the city further, including the constsruction of its massive citadel.
It mostly above ground, but has the downtown section in subway.
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 CAIRO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Search the CAIRO Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
Search the CAIRO Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
Find graves of people named CAIRO at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/C/CAIRO.htm   (73 words)

  
 ENGLISH ENCYCLOPAEDIA - Cairo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
• Boutros Boutros Ghali, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, was born in Cairo.
• American University in CairoCairo International Airport • Cairo University • Cairo metro • Gates of Cairo • Wagh el Birket
ISBN 0140247815 (Pbk) • André Raymong, Cairo trans.
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 New York City - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
For alternate meanings, see New York, New York (disambiguation).
New York — officially named City of New York and often called New York City to distinguish it from the state of New York in which it is located — is the most populous city in the United States, and the second most populous in North America after Mexico City.
New York has ten sister cities: Beijing, Budapest, Cairo, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, London, Madrid, Rome, Santo Domingo, and Tokyo.
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 Cairo (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cairo, a code name for a very advanced version of a Microsoft OS, but later the codename for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
This is a disambiguation page; that is, onethat points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
If you followed a link here, you might want to go back andfix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.
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 Cairo - Gurupedia
Cairo (Arabic, القاهرة, romanized, al-Qāhirah) is the capital city of Egypt and has a
The first hints of westernization began under the successors to
Haussmann and decided to rebuild Cairo on the model of a European capital.
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