The city of Alexandria – Egypt

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

8 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

12/04/2008

Category :

History & geography

Sub category :

Geography

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Summary :

Introduction.
1. Population estimates.
Location and history.
1. The construction of the city.
2. Location.
3. Ptolemaic Alexandria.
4. The Lighthouse of Pharos.
5. The Jewish community.
6. The Arab Muslim conquerors of Egypt.
7. Recent research.
8. A new city center.
9. The elite of Alexandria.
10. Modern Alexandria.
Alexandria today.
Conclusion.

Abstract

An age-old eastern Mediterranean metropolis of nearly two and a half millennia, alexandria is egypt's second-largest city; an important, burgeoning industrial center; and the country's principal port. It also has survived as a romantic myth, as "the universal metropolis," the city at the center of the world. A race against time is presently taking place between developers, bent on constructing the future, and archaeologists, preoccupied with unearthing and salvaging the past. At stake are real estate and the urgent attention to urban growth and development, on the one hand, and the ongoing discovery of an unequaled heritage, on the other hand. Beneath the contemporary Egyptian urban sprawl are layers of history: the Hellenistic city, a direct heir of Egyptian pharaonic civilization; the imperial Roman town; the city of the Late Roman Empire; the Islamic city of Arabs, Mamluks, and Ottomans; and much of the European town of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. alexandria is a palimpsest on which all of its ages have left their marks. It has also been seen at different times as a model of cosmopolitanism and as a micro society planted on foreign soil and has known extraordinary cultural creativity and been a place of memory and a city haunted by legends. It has experienced ancient and modern colonization, imperialism, and nationalism in peculiar ways.