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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 developed following a garden city pattern, with lavish vegetation and trees lining the streets. It attracted poorer classes of the population seeking work as gardeners, servants or guards, they soon established themselves in shacks in an adjacent shanty town at the bottom of the hill, called “the Arab Khana”, that gradually ...
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.
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