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The Royal Jewelry Museum in Zizinia, Alexandria. Zizinia (Egyptian Arabic: زيزينيا) is a neighborhood in Alexandria, Egypt. It is home to the Royal Jewelry Museum and residence of the Governor of Alexandria. It is regarded as an affluent neighborhood where many lawyers, doctors, and business executives live.
Modern self-built homes, and older rural houses near Ard El Liwa, Giza, with the Giza Pyramids in the background. Even though mathematically more housing than needed is produced in Egypt resulting in millions of vacant homes, [1] large portions of its residents live in inadequate housing that may lack secure tenure, safe drinking water and wastewater treatment, are crowded or are prone to ...
The neighborhood mainly houses wealthy Egyptians, as well as foreigners living in Alexandria. During the Revolution of 2011 , the Egyptian Army cordoned the neighborhood off, only allowing residents of the area to enter, to prevent looting , particularly of the vacated apartments of foreigners forced to flee.
The history of the establishment of New Borg El Arab city dates back to 1979, when the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, issued Decree No. 506 on December 5, 1979, which stipulated the allocation of state-owned desert lands in the Matrouh Governorate to establish a new urban complex under the name "New Amiriya City", [11] The area of the new city was determined at 225 km 2 ...
Stanley [1] (Egyptian Arabic: ستانلى) is a neighborhood near the city centre of Alexandria. The area is most famous for the iconic Stanley Bridge on the Corniche, as well as its private-access beach. The bridge has a total length of 400 meters with 6 spans.
Alexandria: City: Alexandria: Time zone: UTC+2 : El Ibrahimiyya (Egyptian Arabic: الإبراهيمية) is a neighborhood in Alexandria, Egypt. [1] Notable people
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Map of the city in the 1780s, by Louis-François Cassas. Alexandria figured prominently in the military operations of Napoleon's expedition to Egypt in 1798. French troops stormed the city on 2 July 1798, and it remained in their hands until the arrival of a British expedition in 1801.