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The 3rd of July Naval Base, also written as July 3rd Naval Base, Third of July, or July 3, [5] also known as Gargoub Naval Base, is an Egyptian naval base situated on the Mediterranean coast, approximately 255 kilometers (158 mi) west of Alexandria, near the Egypt–Libya border. [6]
The museum was established in 1937 at the old building of the Egyptian Ministry of War in downtown Cairo. It was later moved to a temporary location in the Garden City district of Cairo. In November 1949 the museum was moved to the Haram Palace at the Cairo citadel. It has been renovated several times since, in 1982, 1993 [2] and 2011. [3]
The U.S. military maintains hundreds of installations, both inside the United States and overseas (with at least 128 military bases located outside of its national territory as of July 2024). [2] According to the U.S. Army, Camp Humphreys in South Korea is the largest overseas base in terms of area. [ 3 ]
A seaplane base was established next to the palace during the period of British rule in Egypt as part of the British naval base at Alexandria. [7] Following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 the penultimate monarch of Egypt and Sudan, King Farouk, sought refuge in the palace where he was besieged by Egyptian army forces. [8]
Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt 29°59′37″N 31°07′11″E / 29.99370°N 31.11968°E / 29.99370; 31.11968 ( Khufu World's oldest intact ship, dismantled and sealed in a pit beside the Great Pyramid of Giza ; was on display at Giza Solar boat museum at the Giza pyramid complex from 1982 to 2021.
The particular naval base of Peru-nefer was one of the bases established in the Eighteenth Dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt. Perunefer is, according to Manfred Bietak, identified with Tell el-Daba or Ezbet Helmy. Support for this theory comes from excavations and digs that were conducted around the area the naval base was believed to be.
The majority of the modern Egyptian Navy was created with the help of the Soviet Union in the 1960s. [citation needed] The navy received ships in the 1980s from China and Western sources. In 1989, the Egyptian Navy had 18,000 personnel as well as 2,000 personnel in the Coast Guard. [3]
Naval Base San Diego; Naval Base Coronado. Naval Amphibious Base Coronado; Naval Air Station North Island; Naval Outlying Field Imperial Beach; Naval Auxiliary Landing Field San Clemente Island; Naval Base Point Loma; Naval Medical Center San Diego; Naval Air Facility El Centro; Naval Air Station Lemoore; Naval Support Activity Monterey [1 ...