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Cairo
Cairo is a city on the Nile in Egypt, founded in 969 by the Fatimids as their capital, next to the older settlement of Fustat. It was the seat of the Fatimid Caliphate, the Ayyubid Empire and the Mamluk Sultanate, and after 1261 hosted a line of Abbasid caliphs under Mamluk protection. Cairo became one of the largest and wealthiest cities of the medieval Islamic world.
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