This large north African capital city is known in Arabic as al-Qahirah, "the victorious"

Established by the Fatimid Dynasty in 972 C.E., Cairo is the largest metropolitan area in the Arab world, the second-largest in Africa, and the sixth-largest in the world. The Egyptian capital was named for the planet Mars ("Al Najm Al Qahir" in Arabic), which was rising on the day the city was founded.

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