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Where is the 7,947,121 coming from for the population for Cairo Governorate? The infobox should list the governorate population for "city", and if you have numbers for the urban and metropolitan area there are boxes for that. The actual citation actually links me to a page that gives the 2006 population for the governorate as 6,758,581, and that is what should be in the infobox for the city population unless someone can find the most recent estimate for the city from CAMPAS. --Criticalthinker (talk) 10:21, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
Fustat destruction
It is mentioned that Al Fustat was destroyed to prevent its capture from Crusaders, this is historically not true and needs a citation
Population
Here it says "around 16 million" and in the list of metropolitan areas by population it's 15,600,000. In the article of the week candidate list someone mentions 18+ million, and in some of the different language versions of this article the figure is as high as 20 million. (Also, brief googling gave anything from 12 to 19 million.) I wonder if anyone knows the real (approximate) population of the Cairo metropolitan area... Or should we just settle with a vague "about 16-20 million"? --Jonik 19:43, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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A related question: according to the list of cities by population, Cairo (the city without the metropolitan area) is the most dense large city in the world. Does anyone know more about this and is it relevant to add to the article? It seems like an interesting matter --Mathan 09:00, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
== Gezira/Zamalek == rearranging section, and replying
Are Gezira and Zamalek different names for the same place in Cairo? Gareth Hughes 19:26, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Is Cairo the largest city in Africa? If it isn't, I can only imagine Kinshasa would be bigger. Does anyone know?
--Gareth Hughes 23:25, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
This section definitely needs to be fixed. Footnote 4, which is affixed to the sentence about Cairo being second largest city in Africa, links to http://www.africaguide.com/facts.htm, which states that Cairo is the largest city in Africa. I'm not sure how reputable that source is, but we can't have a footnote source that's in direct contradiction to the sentence it's affixed to. Deleteyourself16 (talk) 21:13, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Origin of the name "Cairo"
There seems to be some confusion about where the name of this city came from. As this article currently reads, the introductory section states that the city originally was named as "The Subduer" or after the planet Mars, from which the name Qahirat al-Adaa ("the Subduer of Enemies") was derived. However, thumbing thru Paul E. Walker's Exploring an Islamic Empire: Fatamid History and its Sources , he states that the city was originally named al-Qahira al-Mu'izziya or "City of the Victory of al-Mu'izza"; this is the same explanation found at Fatimid.
Should I assume that Walker & the source for the Fatimid article are wrong? Or that the relationship to Mars is wrong? Or is correct to say that there are several competing etymologies for the name of this city, each of which has its own champions? (Since I know no Arabic, I can't research this issue for myself.) -- llywrch 03:35, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
In German Wikipedia somebody wrote this about the topic: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskussion:Kairo#.C3.9Cbersetzungsfehler_falsche_Namensbedeutung_-Al_Qahira_-_Kairo There somebody wrote that Kairo means 'the strong' (freely translated). He also said that this fault appears in many books.As source he names: Cairo - City of history, André Raymond, AUC Press, Page 37; Deutsch-Arabisches Wörterbuch (German-Arabic Dictionary)
This etymology section does two things: 1) presents one etymology as the only one (whereas many history books present alternative etymologies that don't agree with this one---if you don't think alternative etymologies are correct, at least mention them and say why this explanation is preferred); and 2) goes on to present some individual's riff on the origin of a lot of unrelated words that have nothing to do with the etymology of the name "Cairo" (al-Qahirah). All the other terms are superfluous and distracting (sieger, siege, qa`id, qa`idah, qa, cola, kharab ---I strongly doubt that any of these is etymologically or otherwise related to qahirah). All these words share either 1 or 0 of three roots with qahirah. I'm tempted to delete the entire etymology section until someone writes something that a) includes citations for all assertions made and b) only includes things directly relevant to the term at hand. Jbenhill (talk) 20:41, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi all, well the word "al Qahira" means the conqueror (a female conqueror) of enemies naturally, nothing to support the relationship with mars. It was named so by "Al Moez le dine Allah al fetemy" the fourth "Khalifa" of the Fatimy Islamic State in Tunis and the first Fatemy Khalifa of Egypt after he sent a big army under the command of his best Army Commander "Gawhar Al sekelly" (Gawhar the Sicilian) to the "Abbassi" Egypt at the time. The fatemy army took Egypt and in the year 358 Hijri 969 C.E.Gawhar Al Sekelly built a wall around three cities and called it all "Al Qahira" a short name to "Qahirat Al Moez" (Moez's Cairo not the conqueror of the Moez) the three different cities were : "Al Fustat" (an old name translated The Tent) founded by Amr ibn el 'aas) the islamic leader who started the Islamic reign of Egypt 20 Hijri (around 640 C.E.) that was the name of the city we now call old Cairo where the hanging church, the ancient Jewish synagogue and the first founded by "Amr Ibn el 'aas Mosque" also named after him till this day. the second city included in "Qahirat Al Moez" or Moez's Cairo was "Al 'askar" translated (the soldiers). founded by the Abassi Khalifa "Saleh ben Ali Al 'abbassi" 132 Hijri 749 C.E. and finally "Al Qata'ea" a city founded by Ahmad Ibn Tolon 256 Hijri 869 C.E. when the two early mentioned cities were getting too crowded.
Etymology section needs sources!! The second paragraph is an extended discussion of NOTHING. What does the "correspondence" between a Latin and Arabic root mean? NOTHING, the languages are unrelated. Source the section, CHECK THE OED, or a respected encyclopedia, or a respected etymologist. I've heard that Cairo means "Mars." Parsed almost any way, it emphatically does not. It appears to mean "the strong," "the conqueror." Anything beyond that, especially without citations, linking it to Mars etc. etc., absolutely does not belong here. 173.20.132.128 (talk) 08:06, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
Maimonides
Is it fair to say that the Rambam was a "Famous Cairenes". He was born in Cordoba in Al-Andalus and shifted through various places. --Irishpunktom\ talk July 4, 2005 15:19 (UTC)
As An Egyptian I can tell you that the city was called Al-Quahira because -simply- in Arabic language the pharse(verb-quaher) means "conqueror". For she( the city ) beat all the enemys through it's history. Nora
To my knowledge, the name come from the Pharoes era ( Cahi-Raa ) which mean the city of the Sun's God Raa or city of the Sun's God from which the Greek translation Heliopolice ( Helios - police ). The Jews still call Cairo (Cahir) from very old time before Islam. Regards Nour Bassiounicategory:Holy cities
To whom is Cairo a holy city? The article doesn't say anything about this, nor does the list of holy cities. —Charles P. 17:08, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
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