Details

Subject(s)

• Islamic antiquities—Egypt—Cairo—Maps [Browse]
• Monuments—Egypt—Cairo—Maps [Browse]
• Cairo (Egypt)—Maps [Browse]
• Cairo (Egypt)—Antiquities—Maps [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Maps [Browse]

Translated as

• Kharītat al-Qāhirah tubayin al-Āthār al-Islāmīyah. English. Map of Cairo showing when Islamic edifices were constructed
• Kharīṭat al-Qāhirah tabayyin al-athār al-Islāmīyah. English. Map of Cairo showing Islamic monuments

Notes

• Relief shown by hachures.
• Shows sites from the pre-Fatimid and Fatimid periods to post-Turkish period
• Monuments are numbered on the map as the official plates designation posted on the monument site given by the Antiquities Department of Egypt.
• Buildings and tombs for six periods are color coded.
• Map shows monuments, and significant sacred sites by color coding to identify their historical periods.
• Map Collection has sheet 2 . Companion booklet is missing.

Language note

In Arabic.

Source acquisition

Gift from: Gerald Breese; 1977.

Other format(s)

Online version available via the Princeton University Libraries Digital Maps & Geospatial Data website.

Original language

: القاهرة مصلحة المساحة, 1948.

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