Dahab Island
Dahab Island is a Nile island located in the metropolitan region of Cairo near the eastern Nile shore south of Roda Island and near of Qorsaya Island. The island belongs to Giza and has a strong agricultural character.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in Egypt
- Also known as: “Gezîret eḏ-Ḏahab”, “Geziret el Dahab”, “Geziret el-Dahab”, “Gezîret el-Dahab”, “Jazirat adh Dhahab”, and “Jazīrat adh Dhahab”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fustat and Coptic Museum.
Fustat
Protected area
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Fustat, also Fostat, was the first capital of Egypt under Muslim rule, though it has been integrated into Cairo. It was built adjacent to what is now known as Old Cairo by the Rashidun 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.
Coptic Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0 pl.
The Coptic Museum is a museum in Coptic Cairo, Egypt with the largest collection of Coptic Christian artifacts in the world. It was founded by Marcus Simaika in 1908 to house Coptic antiquities.
Hanging Church
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint Virgin Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church, also known as the Hanging Church, is one of the oldest churches in Egypt which dates to the third century. It belongs to the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Giza and Ma’adi.
Giza
Photo: Maveric149, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Picture yourself in Egypt and you picture this. Imagine Ancient Egypt and this is where your mind will land. Here is Giza, the city just west of Cairo, where on a desert plateau stand the Pyramids, Sphinx and royal tombs of the pharaohs.
Ma’adi
Ma'adi a suburban district of Cairo, to the south of the city center on the eastern bank of the Nile, consists of two distinct areas, Old Ma'adi and New Ma'adi.
Old Cairo
Photo: Blago Tebi, CC BY 3.0.
Old Cairo is the extensive district of southern Cairo from the southern boundary of Garden City down to the precinct commonly known as Coptic Cairo.
Dahab Island
- Categories: quarter, locality, and landform
- Location: Giza Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.98408° or 29° 59′ 3″ northLongitude
31.227° or 31° 13′ 37″ eastPopulation
40,400Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)Open location code
7GXHX6MG+JQOpenStreetMap ID
way 24685098OpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
355117Wikidata ID
Q12205404
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Dahab Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة الدهب”
- Arabic: “جزيرة الذهب”
- Cebuano: “Jazīrat adh Dhahab”
- Dutch: “Geziret el-Dahab”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة الذهب”
- French: “Ile de Dahab”
- German: “Gazirat ad-Dahab”
- German: “Gazīrat edh-Dhahab”
- German: “Geziret el-Dahab”
- German: “Goldinsel”
- Swedish: “Jazīrat adh Dhahab”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Gezirat Ben Al Bahren and Athr Al Nabi.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Premier Egypt and As-Salam International Hospital.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Dahab Island”. Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.