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Alexandria


Alexandria
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Copyright: Jerzy Kobylinski (Santiano) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 61 W: 0 N: 144] (2356)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008
Categories: Architecture
Camera: Canon EOS 30D, Canon 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5, Hoya 77mm PL-CIR
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-07-19 7:20
Viewed: 388
Points: 6
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Alexandria is the second-largest city in Egypt, and is the largest seaport that serves about 80% of all of Egypt's imports and exports. Alexandria is also a very important tourist resort.
In ancient times, Alexandria was one of the most famous cities in the world. It was founded around a small pharaonic town c. 331 BC by Greek Macedonian king Alexander the Great. It remained Egypt's capital for nearly a thousand years, until the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 641 AD when a new capital was founded at Fustat, later absorbed into Cairo.

Alexandria was known for the Lighthouse of Alexandria (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World), the Library of Alexandria (the largest library in the ancient world) and the Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa (one of the Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages). Ongoing maritime archaeology in the harbour of Alexandria, which began in 1994, is revealing details of Alexandria both before the arrival of Alexander, when a city named Rhakotis existed there, and during the Ptolemaic dynasty.
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Witaj!
£adny kadr,³adny widok,piêkna architektura,ciekawa kolorystyka.
Pozdrawiam
Tadeusz

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  • emka Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 496 W: 19 N: 1218] (9065)
  • [2008-07-19 14:18]

Witaj, ładny widoczek z Aleksandrii. Jakieś ciekawe rzeczy maja rozłożone na tym targu. ładnie wygląda twierdza, ciekawy kolor nieba. Widziałam kiedyś film o tych podwodnych wykopaliskach. ciekawe rzeczy tam znaleśli. Pozdrawiam

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witaj Jerzy
¶wietne ujêcie,super kolory,ciekawe miejsce,
pozdrawiam dario

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