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The Port of Alexandria is located on the northern coast of Egypt, to the West of the Nile Delta. In antiquity Alexandria was built between the Mediterranean Sea and Mariut Lake . The latter was connected to the River Nile via canals, allowing goods at the Port to travel to and from the country's interior.
Alexandria has four ports; namely the Western Port also known as Alexandria Port, which is the main port of the country that handles about 60% of the country's exports and imports, [citation needed] Dekhela Port west of the Western Port, the Eastern Port which is a yachting harbour, and Abu Qir Port at the northern east of the governorate. It ...
Forces under Alexander's command cleared the sand and silt deposits which made the port unnavigable, and Alexander's engineer Dinocrates linked the port of Alexandria and the island of Pharos with a bridge 1,200 m (3,900 ft) long and 200 m (660 ft) wide, creating two harbour basins for commercial and military shipping. The northeast basin ...
Egypt is divided into 28 governorates, which include two city-governortes: Alexandria (Alexandria Governorate) and Cairo (Cairo Governorate).There are nine governorates of Lower Egypt in the Nile Delta region, ten of Upper Egypt along the Nile river south from Cairo to Aswan and five frontier governorates covering Sinai and the deserts that lie west and east of the Nile river.
Dekheila (Arabic: الدخيلة) is a neighborhood in Alexandria, Egypt with a large seaport. It is located 7 miles west of Alexandria and the seaport is an extension of the port located in Alexandria. [1] [2] Dekheila is the probable location of the ancient Christian monastic complex of the Pempton at the fifth
The city of Alexandria lies at the center of Egypt's Mediterranean coastline in Lower Egypt (northern Egypt), as chosen by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BCE. The North Coast has been the hub of sea travel between the Mediterranean Sea and the Nile Delta for over 2,300 years. [ 2 ]
Alexandria – Port Said Alexandria – Rosetta Alexandria – Shirbeen Aliqat Cairo Limun – el-Marg Amid Alexandria – Mersa Matruh Amiriya Alexandria – Mersa Matruh Amrus Cairo Furu'a – Kafr el-Ziyat Arab el-Raml Cairo Ramses – Tanta Arad Mersa Matruh – Salloum Armant Alexandria – High Dam Aswan – Luxor Cairo Ramses – High Dam
The name of the town most likely comes from an Arabic name Rašīd (meaning "guide") [3] and was transcribed and corrupted in numerous ways – the name Rexi was used by the Crusaders in Middle Ages [4] and Rosetta or Rosette ("little rose" in Italian and French respectively) was used by the French at the time of Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in Egypt.