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The narrow channel between Roda Island and the mainland is bridged in such a way that the island engages more with Garden City than with Old Cairo - a reversal of historic ties. As its much-rebuilt Nilometer suggests, it was the southern end of Roda that was visited by ferries en route between Memphis and Heliopolis, and Roman ships bound for Babylon-in-Egypt. However, nothing remains of the Byzantine fortress that defied the Muslim invasion, nor the vaster Ayyubid qasr where the Bahri Mamlukes were garrisoned, since Roda reverted to agricultural use as Cairo's focus shifted northeastwards. The island's main sight, the Manial Palace , re-established a fashion for palatial residences early this century, though it wasn't until the 1950s that Roda experienced a building explosion similar to Zamalek's.
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