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Azbakeya (Arabic: أزبكية; also spelled Al Uzbakeya or Auzbekiya [1] [2] [3]) is one of the districts of the Western Area of Cairo, Egypt. [4] Along with Wust Albalad (Downtown) and Abdeen, Azbakiya forms Cairo's 19th century expansion outside the medieval city walls known officially as Khedival Cairo and declared as an Area of Value.
Qasr El Nil Street extends (east to west): from the Abdeen Palace at Abdeen Square, passes a vibrant business district, Bab El-Lauq Market, and the American University in Cairo—Downtown Campus, is joined by Talaat Harb Street and passes through Tahrir Square with The Mogamma building and Egyptian Antiquities Museum, and then crosses the Nile River on the Qasr El Nil Bridge, to end on Gezira ...
Gezira is an island in the Nile, in central Cairo, Egypt. The southern portion of the island contains the Gezira district, and the northern third contains the Zamalek district. Gezira is west of downtown Cairo and Tahrir Square , connected across the Nile by four bridges each on the east and west sides, the Qasr El Nil Bridge , 15 May Bridge ...
Detailed map of Boulaq in c.1800. The new Egyptian Museum of Antiquities was established at Bulaq in 1858 in a former warehouse, following the foundation of the new Antiquities Department under the direction of Auguste Mariette. The building lay on the bank of the Nile River, and in 1878 it suffered significant damage in a flood.
Zamalek (Arabic: الزمالك pronounced [ez.zæˈmæːlek], al zamalek) is a qism (ward) within the West District (hayy gharb) in the Western Area of Cairo, Egypt. [1] It is an affluent district on a man-made island which is geologically a part of the west bank of the Nile River, with the bahr al-a'ma (Blind Canal) cut during the second half of the 19th Century to separate it from the west ...
The previous bridge on the site, El Gezira Bridge, was a swing bridge built between 1869 and 1871 by Linant de Bellefonds with the participation of France's Five-Lilles Company. [ 3 ] The foundation stone for the present Qasr El Nil Bridge was laid by King Fuad I on February 4, 1931. [ 1 ]