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Middle East as far as science is concerned. It was just a coined word used by the
British and relative to British. How can someone from Sudan really refer to Egypt as Middle East?? 🤔 Use your common sense. Israel/ Palestine are the gateway to Asia and where Asia starts. So you can associate Egypt with any culture but it won’t change the fact that it is in Africa; the same way if Spain was predominantly Arab and Muslim it would still be European based on its geographical location. So it’s not Afro centrist it’s just common logic and sense. Unless you spear head another continental drift that will allocate Egypt’s departure from the northern most eastern part of our continent and lands over Iraq; Egypt is still African by geography.
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those historians explicitly say so. Just because the name "Cairo" originates with the
Fatimid foundation does not mean the city as a whole began then. Summarizing the city's starting point as 969 is misleading both in terms of representing the article's content and in terms of what reliable sources present. Considering that the lead is not very long and the revised wording adds only about two sentences, I have a hard time seeing the justification for suddenly excluding basic information. No issues were raised when these revisions to the article and the lead were made two months ago. If it's a matter of wanting to be more concise, the same information can still be condensed in the lead without eliminating the basics.
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continent, does not contradict the fact that it is also part of the Middle East. The Middle East is not confined to only Asia. It extends to Africa via Egypt and to Europe via Turkey. It is on the crossroads of Africa, Asia and Europe. Second of all, the gateway to Asia is the Sinai
Peninsula of Egypt, not "Palestine/Israel". This is why this Cairo article should be locked just like they did with the Middle East and Egypt articles, because it is always changed by uneducated people in this subject.
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What’s your problem??? Egypt is physically on the continent of Africa that makes Egypt an
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I didn't say it was literally the oldest, so I'm not sure what you're trying to say, since the current wording of the lead mentions the earlier settlements too, for that very reason. If it's of any relevance to this discussion, Fustat is indeed the most important early foundation which led to the
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