Mokattam (also Mokattam Mountain and Mokattam Hills) (Arabic: Al-Mokattam) is a hill and suburb of Cairo, Egypt.[1] The name, which means "cut up" in Arabic, refers to the hill is divided into three parts.[2] It lays to the east of Cairo,[1] and in the past was an important source of limestone.[1][3]
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- ^ a b c Kamel, Seif. "Al Mokattam Mountain: On top of Cairo". Retrieved 2009-02-5.
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(help) - ^ Sir Philip de M. Grey Egerton, Bart, M.P., F.R.S., F.G.S. (1854). "Palichthyologic Notes. No. 8. On some Ichthyolites from the Nummulitic Limestone of the Mokattam Hills, near Cairo". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. Retrieved 2009-02-5.
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