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Cairo city - photo wallpapers: Egypt was the first state to establish a system of administration and a capital with the administrative and religious centres. During the late Predynastic Period, Confederations started to emerge with political heads or kings and a capital. In Lower or Northern Egypt, the capital was Buto in the heart of the Delta. The king wore a red crown with a cobra ad an emblem. In Upper or Southern Egypt, the capital was Nekheb between Aswan and Luxor; the king of wich wore a white crown with a vulture as an emblem. The papyrus plant and its flower were the symbol of the North, while the lotus plant and its flower were the symbol of the South. Then came the unity between the North and the South under the reign of King Menes (or Narmer) who chose Memphis between the north and the south to be the first capital of unified Egypt. Memphis is 22 km from Cairo. The best place for the foundation of the Egyptain capital was always the point before the Nile branches. The capital of Egypt has changed throughout history from Ahnasia south of Memphis to Thebes (Luxor). When Alexander the Great entered Egypt in 232 B.C., the capital was transferred west of the Delta to Alexandria. Christianity was introduced and the seat of the Patriarch was between Alexandria and old Cairo. Alexandria remained the Egyptian capital during both the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. In 639 A.D. Amr Ibn El As entered Egypt and introduced Islam. He wanted to keep Alexandria as the capital of egypt but Khalif Omar Ibn Al Khatab ordered him to build a new city. He founded Al Fustat in 641 A.D. beside the fortress of Babylon as the first Islamic capital of Egypt. When the Abbassides took over from the ommayades in 750, Saleh Ibn Ali abandoned Al Fustat and established Al Askar north of the former capital. This new military capital developed and constituted with Al Fustat a big city.

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