Fustat

Fusṭāṭ was the first capital of Egypt under Muslim rule, nowadays part of . It was built adjacent to what is now known as by the Rashidun Muslim general ʿAmr ibn ul-ʿĀṣ immediately after the Muslim conquest of in AD 641, and featured the Mosque of ʿAmr, the first built in Egypt.
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  • Locality
  • …lies at an elevation of 25 metres (82 feet)
  • Description: first capital of Islamic Egypt, in Old Cairo
  • Also known as
    “Al-Fusṭāṭ”
    “El-Fustat”
    “Madīnat al Fusţāţ”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mosque of ‘Amr ibn al-‘Āṣ and Coptic Museum.
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The Amr ibn al-As Mosque is a , located in the Fustat neighbourhood of , .
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The is a in , Egypt…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old Cairo and Sayyidah Zainab District.
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is the extensive district of southern …
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Sayyidah Zainab is one of the old traditional districts of , .
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Fustat

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Latitude
30.00547° or 30° 0′ 20″ north
Longitude
31.23877° or 31° 14′ 20″ east
Open location code
8G2H264Q+5G
Geo­Names ID
7913026
Wiki­data ID
Q839456

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Fustat” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الفسطاط”
  • Arabic: “الفُسْطَاطُ”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الفسطاط”
  • Armenian: “Ֆուստատ”
  • Asturian: “Al-Fustat”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fustat”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fustət”
  • Belarusian: “Фустат”
  • Bengali: “ফুসতাত”
  • Catalan: “Al Fustāt”
  • Catalan: “Al-Fustat”
  • Catalan: “Fustat”
  • Chinese: “福士塔特”
  • Chinese: “福斯塔特”
  • Czech: “Fustát”
  • Danish: “Fustat”
  • Dutch: “Foestat”
  • Dutch: “Fustat”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الفسطاط”
  • Esperanto: “Fustat”
  • Finnish: “Al-Fustat”
  • French: “Al-Fustat”
  • French: “Fostat”
  • French: “Foustat”
  • French: “Fustat”
  • French: “Fustât”
  • German: “Al-Fustat”
  • German: “Al-Fustāt”
  • German: “Al-Fusṭāṭ”
  • German: “Fostat”
  • German: “Fustat”
  • German: “Fustât”
  • German: “Fustāt”
  • German: “Fusṭāṭ”
  • Greek: “Φουστάτ”
  • Hausa: “Fustat”
  • Hebrew: “פוסטאט”
  • Hindi: “फ़ुस्तात”
  • Indonesian: “Fustat”
  • Irish: “Fustat”
  • Italian: “Al-Fustat”
  • Italian: “Fustat”
  • Japanese: “フスタート”
  • Kazakh: “Фұстат”
  • Macedonian: “Фустат”
  • Malay: “Fustat”
  • Malayalam: “ഫുസ്തത്”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fustat”
  • Norwegian: “Fustat”
  • Persian: “فسطاط”
  • Polish: “Fustat”
  • Portuguese: “Fostate”
  • Portuguese: “Fustat”
  • Romanian: “Al-Fustat”
  • Russian: “Фустат”
  • Serbian: “Fustat”
  • Serbian: “Фустат”
  • Serbian: “الفسطاط”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fostat”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fustat”
  • Slovenian: “Fustat”
  • Spanish: “Al Fustat”
  • Spanish: “Al Fustaṭ”
  • Spanish: “Al Fustāt”
  • Spanish: “Al Fustāṭ”
  • Spanish: “Al Fusṭaṭ”
  • Spanish: “Al Fusṭāṭ”
  • Spanish: “Al-Fustat”
  • Spanish: “Al-Fustaṭ”
  • Spanish: “Al-Fustāt”
  • Spanish: “Al-Fustāṭ”
  • Spanish: “Al-Fusṭaṭ”
  • Spanish: “Fostat”
  • Spanish: “Fustat Misr”
  • Spanish: “Fustat-Misr”
  • Spanish: “Misr Al Fustat”
  • Spanish: “Misr Al-Fustat”
  • Swedish: “Fustat”
  • Tajik: “Фустот”
  • Tatar: “Әл-Фустат”
  • Turkish: “Fustat”
  • Ukrainian: “Фустат”
  • Urdu: “فسطاط”
  • Uzbek: “Fustat”
  • “El-Fustat”

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