Cairo, Ottoman

by Michel, Nicolas

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In the Ottoman period—the era between the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 923/1517 and the French expedition to Egypt of 1798 to 1801— Cairo , with its prestigious past, was the capital of the Ottoman province of Egypt, the second largest city in the Ottoman Empire in terms of population, and an important hub of commercial transit. Up until the 1950s Ottoman Cairo was best known through the descriptions written by the scholars of the French expedition to Egypt, who produced the enormous, detailed …

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In the Ottoman period—the era between the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 923/1517 and the French expedition to Egypt of 1798 to 1801— Cairo , with its prestigious past, was the capital of the Ottoman province of Egypt, the second largest city in the Ottoman Empire in terms of population, and an important hub of commercial transit. Up until the 1950s Ottoman Cairo was best known through the descriptions written by the scholars of the French expedition to Egypt, who produced the enormous, detailed study Description de l’Égypte.

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei1587

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eng Islam

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Michel, Nicolas

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