Babylon/al-Fusṭāṭ/Old Cairo
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A. Bernand
Creators: A. Bernand
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jen Thum, Jeffrey Becker, Zachary Rosalinsky, H. Kopp, Herbert Verreth, B. Siewert-Mayer, Mark Depauw, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Adam Prins, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Enes Yılandiloğlu, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa
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History
An ancient fortified city of the Nile Delta of Egypt, located at Babylon in the area today known as Coptic Cairo. Under the name al-Fusṭāṭ, it became the political center of Egypt following the Arab conquest in the 7th century CE.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727082
30.005783, 31.2301075
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
- DARMC location 11613 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Alt-Kairo (German, 2670 BC - 1086 BC)
- Altkairo (1548 BC - 1086 BC)
- Babylon (330 BC - AD 640)
- Babylon (unspecified date range)
- Babylonia (Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Babylōn (Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 640)
- Cairo (English, modern)
- Fusṭāṭ (unspecified date range)
- فسطاط (Fusṭāṭ: Ottoman Turkish, AD 1500 - AD 1599)
- Fusṭāṭ Miṣr (Modern Standard Arabic, AD 750 - AD 1516)
- Kairo (German, 1548 BC - AD 2000)
- Maṣr al-Qadīma (2010 BC - 1640 BC)
- Mişr (Modern Standard Arabic, unspecified date range)
- Miṣr al-Qadīma (Modern Standard Arabic, 2010 BC - AD 2000)
- al-Fusṭāṭ (Modern Standard Arabic, 2670 BC - AD 750)
- al-Qāhira (Modern Standard Arabic, 2168 BC - AD 2000)
- Ḳāhire (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1500 - AD 1599)
- ẖr-ʿhꜣ (Ancient; writing system unspecified Egyptian, 2010 BC - 1640 BC)
- ẖrjʿḥ3 (2670 BC - 2168 BC)
- ẖrjʿḥꜣ (Ancient; writing system unspecified Egyptian, 2670 BC - 1086 BC)
- Babylon/al-Fusṭāṭ/Old Cairo capital of Miṣr (early Islamic province) (AD 632 - AD 940)
- Babylon/al-Fusṭāṭ/Old Cairo next place in route Stratonicidi (unspecified date range)
- Babylon Fortress located at Babylon/al-Fusṭāṭ/Old Cairo (unspecified date range)
settlement (fortified), settlement
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 74 E4 Babylon
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Fostat, Cairo
A. Bernand, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jen Thum, Jeffrey Becker, Zachary Rosalinsky, H. Kopp, Herbert Verreth, B. Siewert-Mayer, Mark Depauw, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Adam Prins, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Enes Yılandiloğlu, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Babylon/al-Fusṭāṭ/Old Cairo: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727082> [accessed: 11 September 2026]
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