Regional1952

Black Saturday (Cairo Fire)

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Cairo

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Anti-British and anti-foreign riots that burned much of central Cairo, hastening the 1952 Revolution.

Belligerents2

Kingdom of Egypt
United Kingdom

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Black Saturday (Cairo Fire) (1952). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/black-saturday-cairo-fire · Sources & methodology