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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]
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]
Abidin Bey al-Arnaut (c. 1780–1827) was an Albanian [1] commander and politician of Egypt during the early era of Muhammad Ali's rule.A member of the core group of Muhammad Ali's commanders, after his death the Abdeen Palace named after him was built on the site of his residence in Cairo and a district of the city was renamed to honour him.
Sultan al-Salih Isma'il (a son of al-Nasir who reigned from 1342 to 1345) built a richly decorated palace or hall known as al-Duhaysha (the "little wonder") which was inaugurated in February 1344. [13] Likewise, Sultan Hasan (another son of al-Nasir) built a lavish domed palace known as the Qa'a al-Baysariyya, which was completed in 1360.
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 ...
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Abdeen (Cairo), a district of Cairo; Abdeen Palace, one of the official residences of the President of Egypt Abdeen Palace incident of 1942, military confrontation that took place on 4 February 1942; Abdeen, a village in the Bsharri District of Lebanon; Abdin, Daraa Governorate, a village in southern Syria; Abdin, Idlib, a village in ...
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