Northern Cemetery (City of the Dead)
Also known as القرافة الشرقية
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Cairo's Northern Cemetery is the younger half of al-Qarafa, the Islamic-era necropolis flanking the Citadel, and it is also called the Eastern Cemetery because it lay east of the old walled city. Mamluk sultans built out here through the…
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