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1. A. This city was founded by Alexander the great after his capture of Egypt in 332 BC.
2. B. This city (now in Algeria) was the capital of a powerful Berber dynasty in the 11th century.
3. C. This ruined city (now in Tunisia) was founded by colonists from the Phoenician kingdom of Tyre in the late 8th century BC.
4. D. This city in Egypt on the eastern mouth of the Nile, west of Port Said, was conquered by the Crusaders in 1219 and taken by the French Crusaders in 1249.
5. E. This city is situated on a small island in the Nile river, in Upper Egypt opposite Aswan. It has ruins of many structures - Egyptian, Roman, Saracen and Arabic.
6. F. This city in Morocco is one of the sacred cities of Islam. It was founded in 790 and was for many years a traditional capital of Morocco.
7. G. This city in Egypt is situated five miles from the great pyramids and the sphinx.
8. H. This ancient city of Egypt was dedicated to the worship of the sun god, Ra. Its ruins are situated six miles north east of Cairo.
9. I. This city in Egypt is famous for its temple of Horus, almost wholly preserved.
10. J. This city in West Morocco was founded in 1502 by the Portuguese, who called it Mazagan.
11. K. This village on the East bank of the Nile in Upper Egypt is divided in two parts. The north part is the site of ancient Thebes, the south part is Luxor.
12. L. This Egyptian city has the ruins of the ancient temple built by Amenhotep III (reigned 1411-1375 BC).
13. M. This city in Egypt was traditionally the capital of Menes (ca.3100 BC) and of most rulers of the Old Kingdom and of the Middle Kingdom down to the XVIIIth dynasty.
14. N. This town in ancient Egypt near modern Marawi was the capital of the kingdom of Nubia 750 BC.
15. O. This city in Algeria was founded in the 10th century and was an important seaport in the 15th and 16th centuries. It was held by the Spanish 1509-1708.
16. P. This is the name of a group of five cities in Cyrenaica: Apollonia, Arsinoë, Berenice, Cyrene and Ptolemaïs.
17. Q. This city in Upper Egypt below Luxor, 280 miles south of Cairo is noted for its manufacture of water jars and bottles.
18. R. This city became important when it was made the capital of a French protectorate in Morocco in 1912.
19. S. This town west of Tripoli, Libya was founded by the Carthaginians in the 4th century BC. It was one of the three chief cities of Tripolis, the others being Leptis Magna and Oea.
20. T. This ancient ruined city in Egypt became the capital of Upper Egypt after Memphis and Heracleopolis.
21. U. This city in modern Tunisia 15 miles north of ancient Carthage was the capital of the Roman province of Africa in the 1st century BC.
22. V. This seaport on the Rio de Oro Bay, Western Sahara is today called Dakhla. It was founded by the Spanish under this name.
23. W. This modern city in Egypt, on the shore of Lake Nubia (the southern extension of Lake Nasser) was the head quarter of the Anglo-Egyptian army preparing to reconquer Sudan from the Mehdi (1885-98). The old city of Wadi Halfa was flooded by Lake Nasser, a lake formed in the 1960s as a result of the construction of the Aswan Dam.
24. X. This city was the capital of Egypt under the XIVth dynasty ca. 17th century BC.
25. Z. This ancient town in Tunisia was the scene of a decisive defeat of the Carthagians under Hannibal by the Romans under Scipio Africanus in 202 BC.
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