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History

The island was known in Antiquity as Babylonian Island (), referring to the Babylon Fortress.JOURNAL, Maspero, Jean, Wiet, Gaston, 1919, Materiaux pour servir à la Géographie de l'Égypte, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 53, 4, 68, During the reign of caliph Sulaymān ibn Ê¿Abd al-Malik of the Umayyad dynasty, a nilometer was built on the southern tip of the island opposite the mouth of the Khalij canal in AD 715 to measure the annual Nile flood.BOOK, Brian Fagan,weblink The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations, 1 August 2010, Bloomsbury Publishing, 978-1-59691-780-4, 167, BOOK, Ibn Ê¿Asākir,weblink TārÄ«kh MadÄ«nat Dimashq, 8:84, The structure was replaced in AD 861, during the reign of the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil,BOOK, Doris Behrens-Abouseif,weblink Islamic Architecture in Cairo: An Introduction, BRILL, 1992, 90-04-09626-4, 51, overseen by the astronomer Alfraganus, and despite a number of modifications, is still extant today and known as the Roda Island Nilometer.WEB, Rawda Island Nilometer,weblink 2023-02-19, egymonuments.gov.eg, en, The Ayyubid Sultan as-Salih Ayyub (Reigned 1240 to 1249, great-nephew of Saladin) built a palace at the southern tip of the island near the nilometer.WEB, A Virtual Tour through Al-Manasterly palace and the Nilometer,weblink 2023-02-19, egymonuments.gov.eg, en, Al-Maqrizi, p.405/vol. 1 The mamluk Bahri dynasty originally settled on Roda Island at the palace. The name of the dynasty, "Bahriyya", means 'of the river', referring to their original settlement on the island on the Nile.The Bostan al-Kebir (Great Gardens) started to be planned and grown on the island in 1829 by Viceroy Ibrahim Pasha, of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty.WEB, Rafaat, Samir, 1997-11-27, Prince Mohammed Ali Tewfik Manial Retreat,weblink 2023-02-19, www.egy.com, In 1851 the Manasterly Palace, also known as the Kiosk was built on the island's southern tip on the ruins of the Ayyubid palace for Hassan Fouad Pasha Al-Manasterly, Katkhoda of Egypt during the reign of Abbas I. Later in the early 20th Century the Prince Muhammad Ali Palace was built in the island's mid-north.WEB, Manial Palace Museum,weblink 2023-02-19, egymonuments.gov.eg, en, Today, the island is a bustling neighbourhood of Cairo.

Gallery

Cairo, Nile River, Rhoda Island, Egypt.jpg|Northern tipFile: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 IslandFile:CairoRodaWoodenBridge.jpg|Wooden bridge near the NilometerFile:Nilometer Rhoda Island Cairo June 1966.jpg|The Roda Island Nilometer, and island in the NileFile:قصر المانسترلي بمنيل الروضة.jpg|The Manasterly Palace

References

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External links

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• The Al-Manyal Palace Museum and gardens
• {{in lang|de}} Wikivoyage.org: Rōḍa - on Wikivoyage.org

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