# Boulaq

Cairo, Egypt

Boulaq is a historic working-class district on the Nile beside downtown Cairo. Established in the fourteenth century on newly exposed riverbank, it became the city's main port and later home to Egypt's pioneering Bulaq printing press.

## Roots Earth

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Coordinates: 30.053, 31.23

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