Videos tagged with "citadel"

Old Cairo - Muhammad Ali Citadel HD [03:11]
My journey to the Cairo Citadel through Old Cairo witnessing the magnificent Ottoman/Arabic architecture of the surrounding structures - plus a bit of background music courtesy of the cab driver. (sorry about the camera shaking)
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MAXIUMUS Present: Alger la blanche [07:49]
Video Accompagnée Par " Elle Est D'Ailleurs " de Pierre Bachelet et "Encore une fois" de Helene Segara, Algiers (Arabic: الجزائر, Standard Arabic: Al Jaza'ir IPA: [ɛlʤɛˈzɛːʔir], Algerian Arabic: Dzayer ([dzæjer] (From Berber pronunciation), [[Berber languages|of the largest in the Maghreb[1] (behind Casablanca). Nicknamed El-Bahdja (البهجة) or Alger la Blanche ("Algiers the White") for the glistening white of its buildings as seen rising up from the sea, it is situated on the west side of a bay of the Mediterranean Sea. The city name is derived from the Arabic word al-jazā'ir, which translates as the islands, referring to the four islands which lay off the city's coast until becoming part of the mainland in 1525. Al-jazā'ir is itself a truncated form of the city's older name jazā'ir banī mazghannā, "the islands of (the tribe) Bani Mazghanna", used by early medieval geographers such as al-Idrisi and Yaqut al-Hamawi. Algiers is the only Algerian city with an English name different from its French name. The modern part of the city is built on the level ground by the seashore and the old part, the ancient city of the deys, climbs the steep hill behind the modern town and is crowned by the casbah or citadel, 400 feet (122 m) above the sea. The casbah and the two quays form a triangle. commercial outpost called Ikosim, later developed into a small Roman town called Icosium, existed on what is now the marine quarter of the city. The rue de la Marine follows the lines of a Roman ...
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algeria heritage unisco.WMV [00:48]
There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria including Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad, the first capital of the Hammadid empire; Tipasa, a Phoenician and later Roman town; and Djémila and Timgad, both Roman ruins; M'Zab Valley, a limestone valley containing a large urbanized oasis; also the Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel. The only natural World Heritage Sites is the Tassili n'Ajjer, a mountain range
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