Al-Askar
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Al-‘Askar () was the capital of Egypt from 750–868, when Egypt was a province of the Abbasid Caliphate.
==History== ===Background=== After the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 641, Fustat was established, just north of Coptic Cairo and the regional capital of Egypt was moved from Alexandria to the new city on the eastern side of the Nile.