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Abdeen District is the home of Abdeen Palace (Arabic: قصر عابدين), a 19th-century Cairo palace built by Khedive Ismail and served as the Egyptian royal household's primary official residence from 1874 until the July Revolution in 1952. [1] Since then it has been of the presidential palaces. [1]
The Abdeen Palace Incident was a military confrontation that took place on 4 February 1942 at Abdeen Palace in Cairo, and almost resulted in the forced abdication of King Farouk I. It is considered a landmark in the history of Egypt .
1863 Abdeen Palace - former royal residence, Cairo [22] 1897 Count Gabriel Habib El-Sakakini Pasha Palace at Old Cairo [49] [50] 1898 Anisa Wissa Palace, Fayoum. [51] 1899 Prince Mohammed Ali Tewfik palace (now the Manyal Palace museum) [52] 1899 Prince Said Halim Pasha Palace in downtown Cairo. [53] late 19th century Koubbeh Palace, El-Quba [54]
The air operation attempted to bomb King Farouq's Abdeen Palace. [4] One plane went to Cairo but failed to hit the palace. [4] The bombing struck a residential neighborhood during Iftar, killing 30 Egyptians and striking a rail line. [4] [2] According to Al-Ahram the following day, the bombardment happened at 7:55 pm. [8]
On the night of 4 February 1942, soldiers surrounded Abdeen Palace in Cairo and Lampson presented Farouk with an ultimatum. While a battalion of infantry took up their positions around the palace with the roar of tanks could be heard in the distance, Lampson arrived at the Abdeen Palace in his Rolls-Royce together with General Stone. [98]
The war, more specifically the 1942 Abdeen Palace incident, demonstrated to Egyptians that neither the king or the Wafd could challenge British influence. After the war, riots in 1945 and students protests in 1946 rocked the nation. [27] Egyptian nationalism continued to grower more potent; the 1936 treaty would be annulled in 1951.
It is one of the streets in the Sayyidah Zainab, and the reason for the name of this street is because there was a pond called Al-Birka Al-Nasiriya by Sultan Al-Nasir Muhammad bin Qalawun, which was surrounded by small houses, but with the construction of Abdeen Palace and the beginning of Khedive Ismail's reign, several state officials lived ...
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 ...