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Giza

City in Greater Cairo, Egypt

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Who ruled here

Borders: Cliopatria, Natural Earth

38 realms held Giza from 3000 BCE to today, as the atlas draws their borders. Lines side by side are realms that held it at once.

  1. Early Dynastic Period of Egypt3000 – 2501 BCE · 500 years
  2. Old Kingdom of Egypt2500 – 2201 BCE · 300 years
  3. Lower Egypt2200 – 2001 BCE · 200 years
  4. Middle Kingdom of Egypt2000 – 1601 BCE · 400 years
  5. Hyksos1600 – 1501 BCE · 100 years
  6. Egyptian Empire1500 – 801 BCE · 700 years
  7. Twenty-third Dynasty of Egypt800 – 701 BCE · 100 years
  8. Kingdom of Kush700 – 676 BCE · 25 years
  9. Neo-Assyrian Empire675 – 616 BCE · 60 years
  10. Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt615 – 501 BCE · 115 years
  11. Achaemenid Empire500 – 384 BCE · 117 years
  12. Thirtieth Dynasty of Egypt383 – 338 BCE · 46 years
  13. Achaemenid Empire337 – 332 BCE · 6 years
  14. Ptolemaic Kingdom331 – 324 BCE · 8 years
  15. Macedonian Empire323 – 308 BCE · 16 years
  16. Ptolemaic Kingdom307 – 171 BCE · 137 years
  17. Seleucid Empire170 – 165 BCE · 6 years
  18. Ptolemaic Kingdom164 – 28 BCE · 137 years
  19. Roman Empire27 BCE – 260 CE · 287 years
  20. Palmyrene Empire261 – 269 CE · 9 years
  21. Roman Empire270 – 394 CE · 125 years
  22. Byzantine Empire395 – 622 CE · 228 years
  23. Sasanian Empire623 – 628 CE · 6 years
  24. Byzantine Empire629 – 640 CE · 12 years
  25. Rashidun Caliphate641 – 660 CE · 20 years
  26. Umayyad Caliphate661 – 681 CE · 21 years
  27. No realm drawn here682 – 691 CE · 10 years
  28. Umayyad Caliphate692 – 750 CE · 59 years
  29. Abbasid Caliphate751 – 874 CE · 124 years
  30. Tulunids875 – 910 CE · 36 years
  31. Abbasid Caliphate911 – 969 CE · 59 years
  32. Fatimid Caliphate970 – 1168 CE · 199 years
  33. Zengid dynasty1169 – 1176 · 8 years
  34. Ayyubid Sultanate1177 – 1249 · 73 years
  35. Mamluk Sultanate1250 – 1518 · 269 years
  36. Ottoman Empire1519 – 1798 · 280 years
  37. French Directory1799
  38. French Consulate1800 – 1802 · 3 years
  39. Ottoman Empire1803 – 1804 · 2 years
  40. Muhammad Ali dynasty1805 – 1865 · 61 years
  41. Khedivate of Egypt1866 – 1884 · 19 years
  42. British Africa1885 – 1921 · 37 years
  43. British Empire1885 – 1921 · 37 years
  44. Kingdom of Egypt1922 – 1952 · 31 years
  45. Republic of Egypt1953 – 1957 · 5 years
  46. United Arab Republic1958 – 1972 · 15 years
  47. Arab Republic of Egypt1973 – 2024 · 52 years
  48. EgyptToday

Giza is the third-largest city in Egypt by area and population, and is also the eighteenth-largest city in Africa by population. It is the capital of Giza Governorate with a total population of 4,458,135 as of 2023. It is located on the west bank of the Nile opposite central Cairo, and is a part of the Greater Cairo metropolis. With 45,300 inhabitants per square kilometer (117,000/sq mi), it is one of the world's most densely populated cities proper. Giza lies less than 30 kilometres north of Memphis, which was the capital city of the unified Egyptian state during the reign of pharaoh Narmer, roughly 3100 BC.

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Events in and around Giza

The most significant within 25 km, a few from each century, in time order

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