Welcome to "ALEXANDRIA"
- Alexander The Great has founded �17 cities� and called them all "Alexandria".
- Alexandria city in (Egypt) flourished, others did not survive to our present day.
-its name in Arabic is AL-ISKANDARIYAH city and urban muhafazah ( governorate).
-it is actually only 225 km. from Cairo , It is linked to Cairo by the Delta Road (231 km.) and the Desert Road (225 km),it is well-known for its soft sands and magnificent scenery that stretch for 40 km. along the Mediterranean Sea.
-Industrial activities:Textile industry,Ship industry,Steel industry,Food industry,Chemicals industry
When he sailed towards Egypt ,he had two aims:
1-to secure his army and land forces in east from the Persian fleet which localized in Mediterranean sea near the north coasts of Egypt.
2-to guarantee supplies of flour and food for his own forces.
*Alexanderthe great�s arrival to Egypt:
In 332 BC, Alexander of Macedonia, the Great, marched into Egypt and freed the country from Persian control, His stay was to be brief, After a visit to the capital, Memphis, he undertook a journey to the Oracle of Zeus Ammon at the oasis of Siwa in the Libyan Desert where his divine origins were declared. During his voyage there or back, it is not known for sure, he stopped at a spot on opposite to the island of Pharos. Legend has it that Homer appeared to Alexander in a dream inspiring the 25 year old conqueror to found a city that would carry his name. The order was given and the architect, Dinocrates of Rhodes, was charged with the task. Alexander, however, was never to see the town. He left before the first stone was laid,heading east to further victories and eventual death at Babylon in present-day Iraq.
*The purpose of building Alexandria�.& its location:
Alexandria was designed to handle Mediterranean shipping between Greece, which was the center of Alexander's empire, and his new Egyptian province. .. That �s why Alexander CHOSE THE VILLAGE OF RAKHOTIS, WHERE THE NILE JOINED THE SEA, A CULT CENTER OF OSIRIS BETWEEN THE ISLAND OF PHAROS AND LAKE MARIOTIS, then in Ptolemaic period it became the center of Hellenic civilization(Hellenic scholarship and science center) ,learning center and busy harbor...
*Foundation of Alexandria:
Alexandria was named after the Macedonian general Alexander the Great,it's The second largest city and the main port of Egypt, the city walls were marked by Alexander himself and the plan designed by the Greek architect Dinocrates (332-331 BC) on the site of an old village, Rhakotis, The city quickly flourished into a prominent cutural, intellectual, political, and economic metropolis, the remains of which are still evident to this day.
