Fostat
Fostat (الفسطاط) is the Arab name of an ancient city located at a score of kilometers of the center of the Cairo, now included in the megalopolis. It was called before Memphis and was the capital of the Pharaonic Ancient Empire. Of Ier in VIIe century after Jesus-Christ, the city became Christian. In 641 finally, it was renamed Fostat and became Arab and Moslem. At the 10th century, it took the Al-Qahira name (" Victorieuse").
Fostat, was in the times of the dynasties Omeyyades (660-750) and Abbassides (750-1050), a strengthened camp, a Amsar in Arabic, where the populations lived Arab S apart from Arabia in the Islamic Empire.
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