00611; 31.22972 Babylon Fortress (Arabic: حصن بابليون; Coptic: ⲡⲁⲃⲓⲗⲱⲛ or Ⲃⲁⲃⲩⲗⲱⲛ)[better source needed] is an Ancient Roman fortress on the eastern bank...

the fortress located between the current neighborhoods of Abdyn and Azbakeya. The defeated Byzantine soldiers retreated to either the Babylon Fortress or...

The Babylon Fortress, a major military stronghold of the Byzantine Empire in Egypt, was captured by forces of the Rashidun Caliphate after a prolonged...

and Cyrus rushed to the Babylon Fortress, sent scouts to Bilbeis to hinder the Arabs' advance, and had the Babylon Fortress fortified. Outside the city...

importance, the Romans established a large fortress along the east bank of the Nile. The fortress, called Babylon, was built by the Roman emperor Diocletian...

Muslim conquest of Egypt in 641 next to an existing ancient Roman fortress, Babylon. Cairo was founded by the Fatimid dynasty in 969. It later superseded...

Γεωργίου; Arabic: كنيسة القديس جورج) is a Greek Orthodox church within the Babylon Fortress in Coptic Cairo. It is part of the Holy Patriarchal Monastery of St...

journey into Egypt. They may have lived here while Joseph worked at the Babylon Fortress.[citation needed] The church is dedicated to Sergius and Bacchus, who...

Coptic Cairo is a part of Old Cairo which encompasses the Babylon Fortress, the Coptic Museum, the Hanging Church, the Greek Church of St. George and many...

the present Babylon Fortress. In the 2nd century AD, Claudius Ptolemy refers to the canal as the "River of Trajan". Diocletian's fortress enveloped the...

Hanging Church is named for its location above a gatehouse of Babylon Fortress, the Roman fortress in Coptic Cairo (Old Cairo); its nave is suspended over a...

Babylon the Great, commonly known as the Whore of Babylon, refers to both a symbolic female figure and a place of evil as mentioned in the Book of Revelation...

to the Babylon Fortress. However, Timagenes, a native of Egypt with knowledge of the land, ambushed the Roman rear and captured the fortress. Tenagino...

of Coptic Cairo. The building is located on the eastern part of the Babylon Fortress and is one of the oldest buildings in Cairo, dating back to the 5th...

another general, Theodore, who gathered his forces around Babylon Fortress, a major fortress in Egypt. By summer 640, 'Amr's forces had swelled to around...

capture of Heliopolis, 'Amr and Zubayr returned to Babylon. Later, during the Siege of Babylon Fortress, both sides exchanged envoys in an effort to demoralize...

Babylon Berlin is a German neo-noir television series. Created, written, and directed by Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, and Hendrik Handloegten, it is...

are built in Saxon style. May – Siege of Babylon Fortress: The Rashidun army lays siege to Babylon Fortress in the Nile Delta (near Cairo). The next two...

the Fort of Qaitbay; Arabic: قلعة قايتباي) is a 15th-century defensive fortress located on the Mediterranean sea coast, in Alexandria, Egypt. It was built...

fortress in Buhen, along with the other fortresses around the 2nd cataract. These fortresses established a new border for Upper Egypt. The fortress itself...

In Egypt: Siege of Babylon Fortress, between the forces of Byzantine Empire and Rashidun Caliphate Fall of Babylon Siege of Babylon This disambiguation...

thousand men., It was recorded by Al-Dhahabi that during the Siege of the Babylon Fortress, Ibn Maslamah was one of the soldiers who was chosen by Zubayr ibn...

Al-Muqawqis, agreed to pay 50,000 gold coins. Later, during the Siege of Babylon Fortress, early chroniclers the mid medieval chronicler Qatadah reported that...

Byzantine Vicarius learned of their plans and collected the garrisons of the fortresses. Seeing the great number of the enemy forces, the Muslims withdrew to...

1632–1848; subsequently the Archdiocese of Baghdad Babylon, Egypt Diocese of Babylon, at Babylon Fortress in Coptic Cairo, Egypt; an Early Christian suffragan...

soldiers by Zubayr ibn al-Awwam. 'Amr first besieged and conquered Babylon Fortress, and then attacked Alexandria. The Byzantines, divided and shocked...

historian A. J. Wensinck. During his siege of Babylon, Amr had erected an encampment near the fortress. He originally intended for Alexandria to serve...

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towards Alexandria, but rather at removing the Byzantine fortress of Babylon (Siege of Babylon Fortress) on the Nile Delta. The destruction of the Byzantine...

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