In the 11^th century a large number of Armenians settled in Egypt because of the Seljuk Turk invasion of Armenia. Historian Philip Hitti wrote: “The prosperity which Egypt enjoyed under the first caliphs in Cairo and later under the two viziers of Armenian origin, is prosperity worthy of Pharaonic or Alexandrian Age.”

In the 11^th century a large number of Armenians settled in Egypt because of the Seljuk Turk invasion of Armenia. Historian Philip Hitti wrote: “The prosperity which Egypt enjoyed under the first caliphs in Cairo and later under the two viziers of Armenian origin, is prosperity worthy of Pharaonic or Alexandrian Age.”