Sedes Cairi fere idem est atque civitatis antiquae nomine Babylon[5] Aegypti. Cuius oppidi mentio iam fit inDiodoriBibliotheca Historica (1.56.3), sed fieri potest ut locus iam diu Aegyptiis in usu esset. Fontem nominis nonnulli dicunt essePr-Ḥˁpy-n-Ỉwn "Domus NiliHeliopolitana," quod quidem verisimiliter /pʰħaʕbn̩ˈʔoːn/ audiebatur.
CumArabes Aegyptum anno 641Byzantinorum devincerent, castra Arabis ducisAmr ibn al-As hic posta erant, quae facta sunt urbsFossatum nomine (Arabice الفسطاطal-Fusṭāṭ). Subregibus domuum Arabum, urbsfloruit ut caput terrae. Anno 969,Fatimidi Aegypto potiti sunt et urbem fundaverunt supra Fossatum, principio appellataal-Mansuriyah, at posteaal-Qahirah vel Cairus nominata est.
Saeculis XII et XIII crucesignati in Aegyptum invaserunt. ApudWillelmum Tyrensem inHistoria rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum scriptum est historia brevis Aegypti ab pharaonum tempore usque ad aevum suum. Cairus vel "Cahere" dictus est "egregia metropolis, quae vulgo Babylonia dicitur, lingua vero ArabicaMacer appellatur".[6]
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