Multiple transport in Cairo and linking different parts including the Suburbs. At the forefront of this means in terms of speed and metro units that link the suburbs Cairo their commercial status since there are longitudinal lines operating units metro regularly, such as Helwan line Bab El Louk (serves the southern range of the capital) and line Heliopolis door Iron (serves scale north-east of the capital), and other lines.And began to run Subway in 1987 which currently connects neighborhoods of Greater Cairo, which leadsArab and African capitals in terms of the lead in the operation of this modern way between the meansTransport within cities.
The public transport buses operating on regular lines of prevailing transport Used to connect the neighborhoods of the city, and vary the number of public buses and intensity of operation Depending on the number of population and the nature of the geographical location of the various neighborhoods. And serve Cairo international airport there in Heliopolis, east of Cairo and includes three huge showrooms for travel The reception of passengers and cargo. The Cairo International Airport is classified among the most airports in the Middle East density, in terms of the volume of passenger traffic, by virtue of Egypt's geographical location and population The economic and political weight of this Arab city.
There in Cairo river port is the port of Bulaq which was built north of Cairo since 1560 m to linking it to the rest of the regions of the country through the course of the Nile and the main navigational canals; So focused in Bulaq since the beginning of the nineteenth century a few numbers of Industrial installations whose functioning relies on local materials brought in from different parts of the Egypt through rural units cheap river transport costs.
It is believed that Cairo named after the omnipotent star who appeared in the sky When you start building the city, and the subsequent construction of the Fatimids of Al-Azhar Mosque, which Hope became interested in the study of Islamic sciences from all over the Muslim world. And expanded Sultan Saladin founder Ayyubid In Egypt (567 - 648 AH, 1171 1250 m) of the urban boundary to Cairo and built his castle (Citadel of Saladin) The late second century AD. The Mamluks did the same thing, as the city expanded Imran During the long period of rule (648 - 923 AH, 1250 - 1517 AD), and built many of the Palaces and luxury housing design and beautiful mosques and many of them are still Persists even now. And left the period of Turkish rule over Egypt (923 - 1299 H, 1517 - 1882) Mark in some houses of the city, in addition to the Mosque of Mohammed Ali Pasha, who built on the model Turkish mosques in historic Istanbul, Turkey.
The spread of modern buildings mixed style with large vertical extension in Many Cairo neighborhoods, especially in the range, the city's central business district and streets leading Him where land prices are rising, and is modern sprawl axes in the axis South towards Helwan, and the north-eastern axis towards Heliopolis, and the east in the direction of the axis My way Cairo Ismailia , Suez Cairo.
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