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الإسكندرية
Alexandria in few lines
Alexandria
(Greek Aleksándreia, Coptic Rakotə, Arabic: الإسكندرية
,tran: Al-Iskandariya), (population of 3.5 to 5 million),
is the second largest city in Egypt, and its most major seaport.
Alexandria extends about 20 miles (32 km) up and down the
Mediterranean sea in southwest Egypt. It is home to the
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the New Library of Alexandria, and is an
important industrial centre because of the natural gas and oil
pipelines from Suez.
In
ancient times, the city was known for the Lighthouse of Alexandria
(one of the Seven Wonders of the World)* and the Library of
Alexandria (the largest library in the ancient world). Ongoing
maritime archaeology in the harbor of Alexandria(which began in
1994) is revealing details of Alexandria during the Ptolemaic
dynasty.
*
The Seven Wonders of the World (or the Seven Wonders of
the Ancient World) is a widely-known list of seven remarkable
constructions of classical antiquity. The earliest known version
of the list was compiled in the 2nd century BC by Antipater of
Sidon; it appears to be based on the guide-books popular among
Hellenic sight-seers and only includes works located around the
Mediterranean rim.
Listed
in order of their construction, the seven wonders are:
the
Great Pyramid of Giza
the
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
the
Statue of Zeus at Olympia
the
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
the
Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus
the
Colossus of Rhodes
the
Lighthouse of Alexandria
Of
these, the only one which has survived to the present day is the
oldest—the Great Pyramid at Giza. The Great Pyramid was built by
the ancient Egyptians, the Hanging Gardens by the Babylonians, and
the Maussollos Mausoleum by the Hellenized Carians; the Lighthouse
of Alexandria and the Colossus of Rhodes by Hellenistic
civilization; the others were built by the ancient Greeks.
Interestingly, two of the wonders, the Temple of Artemis and the
Statue of Zeus, were destroyed by fire, and three of the other
wonders, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, Colossus, and Mausoleum of
Maussollos, were destroyed by earthquakes.
