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Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Cairo markets

Was in Fatimid Cairo multiple markets, and public squares were built for the purpose of trade is called the (Caesarea) has allocated each one of them to sell a particular commodity, and some are selling things that bring convoys from Ethiopia, such as drugs and parrots, gold dust, and there were markets for precious stones in the street Moski , but now settled in the Khan al-Khalili, agate and coral, emerald, turquoise and other types of stones Indian, Ethiopian and Yemeni and attract tourists and kidnap their eyes