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  • Alexandria

  • Alexandria

    Alexandria is the second largest city and a major economic centre in Egypt. It was founded around a small Ancient Egyptian town c. 331 BC by Alexander the Great. It became an important center of the Hellenistic civilization and remained the capital of Hellenistic and Roman and Byzantine Egypt for almost 1000 years until the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 641 AD.
    The site is one of the elements included in the UNESCO Tentative List for World Heritage designation, Alexandria, ancient remains and the new library.
    UNESCO Tentative List
    Alexandria
    by Rasha Somakia
    Alexandria
    by Roland Unger, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Alexandria
    by no machine-readable author, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Alexandria

    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    2003

    city

    Historic Cities and Regions

    Location

    Egypt

    Alexandria

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    4th Century BC

    Ancient Greek

    Hellenistic + Roman + Islamic

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    Mixed Monuments

     

     

     

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