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Cairo (other)
Cairo is the capital city of Egypt. Cairo may also refer to: Places United States * Cairo, Georgia, a city * Cairo, Illinois, a city * Cairo Precinct, Alexander County, Illinois * Cairo, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Cairo, Kansas, an unincorporated community * Cairo Township, Renville County, Minnesota * Cairo, Missouri, a village * Cairo, Nebraska, a village * Cairo, New York, a town ** Cairo (CDP), New York, a census-designated place in the town * Cairo, Ohio, a village * Cairo, Stark County, Ohio, an unincorporated community * Cairo, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community * Cairo, Oregon, an unincorporated community * Cairo, Crockett County, Tennessee, an unincorporated community * Cairo, Sumner County, Tennessee, an unincorporated community * Cairo, West Virginia, a town Elsewhere * Cairo, a community in the township of Dawn-Euphemia, Ontario, Canada * Cairo Governorate, Egypt * Cairo Montenotte, a commune in the Liguria region of Italy * Cape Cairo, Nuna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metropolitan area, with a population of 21.9 million, is the 12th-largest in the world by population. Cairo is associated with ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are located in its geographical area. Located near the Nile Delta, the city first developed as Fustat, a settlement founded after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 640 next to an existing ancient Roman fortress, Babylon. Under the Fatimid dynasty a new city, ''al-Qāhirah'', was founded nearby in 969. It later superseded Fustat as the main urban centre during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (12th–16th centuries). Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairo, West Virginia
Cairo ( ) is a town in Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States, along West Virginia Route 31, the North Fork of the Hughes River, and the North Bend Rail Trail. The population was 174 at the 2020 census. History The town was named by its earliest settlers, who were Scots Presbyterians, for the city of Cairo, Egypt, owing to the presence of water and fertile land at the site. Cairo was incorporated in 1895. The North Bend Rail Trail passes through the town. The former Bank of Cairo building, now Cairo Town Hall, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. Geography Cairo is located at (39.208264, -81.156600). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Demographics 2010 census At the 2010 census, there were 281 people, 118 households, and 71 families living in the town. The population density was . There were 151 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairo (1942 Film)
''Cairo'' is a 1942 musical comedy film made by MGM and Loew's, and directed by W. S. Van Dyke. The screenplay was written by John McClain, based on an idea by Ladislas Fodor about a news reporter shipwrecked in a torpedo attack, who teams up with a Hollywood singer and her maid to foil Nazi spies. The music score is by Herbert Stothart. This film was Jeanette MacDonald's last film on her MGM contract. The film was poorly received upon its initial release. Plot American Homer Smith is the star reporter of a small newspaper, which is named the best small town newspaper in the country. As a reward for his contributions, he is sent to North Africa to report on the war. In the Mediterranean, however, his ship is sunk; he and one other survivor, Philo Cobson, make it to shore. Cobson reveals that he is a member of British Intelligence and asks Smith to give a coded message to a Mrs. Morrison in Cairo. Mrs. Morrison tells him that motion picture star Marcia Warren is a Nazi spy. Smi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Auxiliary Cruiser Stier
''Stier'' (HSK 6) was an auxiliary cruiser of Nazi Germany's ''Kriegsmarine'' during World War II. Her ''Kriegsmarine'' designation was Schiff 23, to the Royal Navy she was Raider J. The name ''Stier'' means "bull" and also represents the Taurus (constellation), Taurus constellation in the German language. She was the last German raider to break out into the Atlantic in World War II. Early history Built by Germaniawerft in 1936 as the freighter ''Cairo'', she was operated by the Atlas Levant Line (ALL) until being requisitioned for Kriegsmarine services in November 1939. After merchant warfare operations in the Baltic Sea, she was converted into a mine layer and was planned to be used during Operation Sea Lion. After this operation was canceled, the now renamed ''Stier'' was modified into an auxiliary cruiser in April 1941, first at the Wilton-Fijenoord, Wilton shipyard Rotterdam and later at Oderwerke, Stettin, and Kriegsmarinewerft, in Gotenhafen (Gdynia). Raiding voyage On 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
