Roda Island (or Rawdah Island, , ) is an island located on the

Nile The Nile, , Bohairic , lg, Kiira , Nobiin language, Nobiin: Áman Dawū is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile is the longest river in Africa and has historically been considered ...

in central

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

.http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/rawdah.htm Touregypt: Rawdah Island; accessed 02-28-2011 The

mamluk Mamluk ( ar, مملوك, mamlūk (singular), , ''mamālīk'' (plural), translated as "one who is owned", meaning " slave", also transliterated as ''Mameluke'', ''mamluq'', ''mamluke'', ''mameluk'', ''mameluke'', ''mamaluke'', or ''marmeluke'') ...

Bahri dynasty originally settled on Roda Island at the castle of al-Rodah, which was built by the

Ayyubid The Ayyubid dynasty ( ar, الأيوبيون '; ) was the founding dynasty of the medieval Sultan of Egypt, Sultanate of Egypt established by Saladin in 1171, following his abolition of the Fatimid Caliphate, Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt. A Sunni ...

Sultan

as-Salih Ayyub Al-Malik as-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub (5 November 1205 – 22 November 1249), nickname: Abu al-Futuh ( ar, أبو الفتوح), also known as al-Malik al-Salih, was the Ayyubid Kurdish ruler of Egypt from 1240 to 1249. Early life In 1221, as-S ...

(great-nephew of Saladin) in order to house his mamluks.Al-Maqrizi, p.405/vol. 1 The name of the dynasty, ''"Bahriyya"'', means 'of the river', referring to their original settlement on the island on the Nile River. The

El-Manial El Manial ( , "'' the nilometer''") is a district of Cairo, located on Rhoda Island in the Nile. Prince Mohamed Ali Palace The El Manial Palace and garden estate was built for Prince Mohammed Ali Tewfik between 1899 and 1929. The Prince ...

district and the

Manial Palace and Museum The Manial Palace and Museum is a former Alawiyya dynasty era palace and grounds on Rhoda Island on the Nile. It is located in the Sharia Al-Saray area in the El-Manial district of southern Cairo, Egypt. The palace and estate has been preser ...

and gardens are located on the island. It is situated west of historic Old Cairo, over a small branch of the Nile. The island has one of the oldest Islamic buildings in Egypt, the

Nilometer A nilometer was a structure for measuring the Nile River's clarity and water level during the annual flood season. There were three main types of nilometers, calibrated in Egyptian cubits: (1) a vertical column, (2) a corridor stairway of steps ...

, in the neighbourhood of the Manasterly Palace on its southern tip.

Gallery

Cairo, Nile River, Rhoda Island, Egypt.jpg, Northern tip File:Roda Island in Environs du Kaire (Cairo). Plan général de Boulâq, du Kaire, de l'île de Roudah (el-Rôda), du Vieux Kaire et de Gyzeh (Jîzah) (NYPL b14212718-1268726) (cropped).jpg, c.1800 map of Roda Island File:CairoRodaWoodenBridge.jpg, Wooden bridge near the

File:Nilometer Rhoda Island Cairo June 1966.jpg, The Roda Island Nilometer, and island in the Nile File:قصر المانسترلي بمنيل الروضة.jpg, The Manasterly Palace

References

External links

The Al-Manyal Palace Museum and gardens
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