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Historical Rosetta
Rosetta, Rashid, is a port city of the Nile Delta, located east of Alexandria, in Egypt's Beheira governorate. The site of Rosetta was inhabited throughout the history of Ancient Egypt. In the Ptolemaic era, the town was renamed to Bolbitine. In the 850s, the Abbassid caliph ordered a fort to be built on the site of the Ptolemaic city, and the medieval city grew around this fort.
The site is included on the UNESCO Tentative List under the official name, Historic quarters and monuments of Rosetta/Rachid.byMatijap (assumed), Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsElevation: 6 m
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UNESCO Tentative List
Date of Submission
2003
Third Millennium BC
Ancient Egyptians
Ptolemaic + Roman + Islamic
Mixed Monuments
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