Bab al-Nasr (Cairo)
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Bab al-Nasr, is one of three remaining gates in the historic city wall of Cairo, the capital of Egypt. The gate's construction is dated to 1087 and was ordered by Badr al-Jamali, a Fatimid vizier. It is located at the northern end of Shari'a al-Gamaliya in the old city of Cairo and slightly east of another contemporary gate, Bab al-Futuh.
The outer façade of the gate
Illustration of the gate in the Description de l'Égypte, circa 1800
Photograph of the gate in 1867
Drawing of the gate and its surroundings in 1878
Cairo
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Cairo is the capital of Egypt and the city-state Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East, the Greater Cairo metropolitan area, which is the 12th-largest in the world by population with a population of over 22.1 million.
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