Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This work is not an object of copyright in Egypt because it is an official document. Regardless of their source or target language, all official documents are ineligible for protection in Egypt, including laws, regulations, resolutions and decisions, international conventions, court decisions, award of arbitrators and decisions of ...
Heliopolis (Egyptian Arabic: مصر الجديدة, Maṣr el-Gedīda, [ˈmɑsˤɾ el ɡɪˈdiːdæ,-eɡ-], lit. "New Egypt") was an early 20th century suburb outside Cairo, Egypt, which has since merged with Cairo and is administratively divided into the districts of Masr El Gedida and El Nozha in the Eastern Area. [1]
Heliopolis (via Alexandria) Victoria Embankment (1878) London: United Kingdom [2] Central Park (1881) New York City: United States [1] Al-Masalla obelisk (a.k.a. Al Mataraiyyah obelisk) 20.40 m: Senusret I: 1971–1926 BC Heliopolis (in situ) Al-Masalla area of Al-Matariyyah district in Heliopolis: Cairo: Egypt [1] Obelisk of Theodosius (a.k.a ...
Heliopolis map published in 1809, in the Description de l'Égypte. The ancient city is currently located about 15–20 meters (49–66 ft) below the streets of the middle- and lower-class suburbs of Al-Matariyyah, [1] Ain Shams, and Tel Al-Hisn [24] in northern Cairo.
Our Lady of Heliopolis Co-Cathedral, [1] also known as the Latin Cathedral of Our Lady of Heliopolis, or the Basilica of the Holy Virgin, [2] is a Roman Catholic church building, located on Al-Ahram Square in the Heliopolis neighbourhood of Cairo, Egypt. [3] Alexandre Marcel designed the cathedral in a Byzantine Revival style, based on the ...
By 1906, the Baron hired the architect Ernest Jaspar to help create a unique aesthetic in the suburbs of Heliopolis dubbed the "Heliopolis style." [6] Including aspects of Persian elements to neoclassical European aspects, the newly established city of Heliopolis would become a cultural center of Egypt attracting people from all over the world ...
El Matareya (Arabic: المطرية [el.mɑ.tˤɑ.ˈɾej.jɑ]) is a district in the Eastern Area of Cairo, [1] Egypt. The district is unrelated to the coastal town in the Dakahlia Governorate, that is also named El Matareya. The district holds the ruins of the ancient Egyptian city of Heliopolis, one of the oldest cities of ancient Egypt.
Ain Shams (also spelled Ayn or Ein - Arabic: عين شمس, [ʕeːn ʃæms], Coptic: ⲱⲛ ⲡⲉⲧ ⲫⲣⲏ [1]) is a district in the Eastern Area of Cairo, Egypt. [2] The name means "Eye of the Sun" in Arabic, referring to the fact that the district contained the ruins of the ancient city of Heliopolis, once the spiritual centre of ancient Egyptian sun-worship, and settled since 3100 BCE ...