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Touring El-Paruqiya in Egypt

El-Paruqiya in the region of Al Jīzah is located in Egypt - some 8 mi or ( 13 km ) South of Cairo , the country's capital city .

Interactive map of El-Paruqiya

Time in El-Paruqiya is now 02:19 PM (Sunday) . The local timezone is named " Africa/Cairo " with a UTC offset of 2 hours. Depending on your budget, these more prominent places might be interesting for you: Tyre, Gaza, Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Tura al Hajjarah. Being here already, consider visiting Tyre . We collected some hobby film on the internet . Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation. Check out our recommendations for El-Paruqiya ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


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Egyptian Boy - American Boy Parody

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Best of Cairo

4:26 min by David PIN
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48 hours in Cairo Other travels in pictures and movies @ www.ddpn.net ..

Cairo Pigeon Market - سوق الحمام

1:18 min by David Degner
Views: 8655 Rating: 4.20

Every Friday the pigeon fanciers of Cairo gather together in the cemetery of old Cairo to share knowledge and trade birds. These birds aren't for eating. Some are coveted for unusual physical traits. ..


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Interesting facts about this location

Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt

The Supreme Constitutional Court (or SCC) is an independent judiciary body in the Arab Republic of Egypt, with its new seat in the Cairo suburb of Maadi. The Court is the highest judicial power in Egypt and it alone undertakes the judicial control in respect of the constitutionality of the laws and regulations and shall undertake the interpretation of the legislative texts in the manner prescribed by law.

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Located at 29.97 31.24 (Lat./Long.); Less than 3 km away
Tags: 1979 establishments in Egypt, Buildings and structures in Cairo, Constitutional courts, Egyptian Revival architecture, Egyptian law, Government of Egypt, National supreme courts

Abu Gorab

Abu Gurab (also known as Abu Ghurab, Abu Gurob and Abu Jirab) is a sun temple built by the people of ancient Egypt. It was excavated by Egyptologists between 1898 and 1901 by Ludwig Borchardt on behalf of the Berlin Museum and is located near the city of Memphis. It was built to honor the Sun god Ra. The temple was constructed by the orders of Nyuserre Ini, the sixth king of the fifth dynasty of Egypt. The exact dates of his reign are unknown.

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Located at 29.92 31.23 (Lat./Long.); Less than 5 km away
Tags: 25th-century BC architecture, Memphis, Egypt

Tura, Egypt

Tura was a site in Ancient Egypt, located about halfway between modern Cairo and Helwan. It was Egypt's primary quarry for limestone. Tura was known to the ancient Egyptians as Troyu or Royu. This name was misinterpreted by Strabo to mean that it was inhabited by Trojans, thus the Hellenistic city was named Troia. This site was located at {{#invoke:Coordinates|coord}}{{#coordinates:30|00|N|31|16|E||| | |name= }}, and its site is occupied by the modern town of Tura, Cairo Governorate.

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Located at 30.00 31.27 (Lat./Long.); Less than 6 km away
Tags: Ancient Greek sites in Egypt, Archaeological sites in Egypt

Fustat

Fustat, was the first capital of Egypt under muslim rule. It was built by the Muslim general 'Amr ibn al-'As immediately after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in AD 641, and featured the Mosque of Amr, the first mosque built in Egypt and in all of Africa. The city reached its peak in the 12th century, with a population of approximately 200,000.

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Located at 30.00 31.23 (Lat./Long.); Less than 6 km away
Tags: 641 establishments, Amṣar, Arabic architecture, Former populated places in Egypt, History of Cairo, Old Cairo, Populated places established in the 7th century, Populated places in Egypt

Cairo Geniza

The Cairo Geniza is a collection of some 300,000 Jewish manuscript fragments that were found in the geniza or storeroom of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat or Old Cairo, Egypt. Some additional fragments were found in the Basatin cemetery east of Old Cairo, and the collection includes a number of old documents bought in Cairo in the later 19th century. It is now dispersed among a number of libraries, including the libraries of Cambridge University and the University of Manchester.

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Located at 30.01 31.23 (Lat./Long.); Less than 7 km away
Tags: 9th-century establishments, Cairo culture, Hebrew manuscripts, History of Cairo, Islam-related literature, Jewish Egyptian history, Jewish libraries, Judaism in Egypt, Libraries in Egypt, Manuscripts from the Cairo Geniza, Religion in Cairo