Sunday, November 30, 2014

Sousse Tunisia

Sousse is a Tunisian city, located 140 km south of the capital, located amid the eastern coast of Tunisia.

Sousse is located in the center-east of Tunisia. It is the center of the Tunisian coast. Known as the "jewel coast." Tunisian Sahel region stretches along about 170 km between Bouficha and Ahabhoard 25 kilometers between Sousse and Sidi El Hani, Sousse coastal city oversees the shores of the Mediterranean. Sandy coasts appropriate maritime commercial activity and activity of fishing and tourism activity. The terrain consists of plains and low-rise Ruba appropriate land for agricultural activity and livestock as sheep, cattle, goats and poultry. Mild Mediterranean climate. The amounts of rain coming down the range between 250 and 400 mm per year. It is in favor of a climate for planting Zayatin. Surrounded by the city's urban network dense spaced at approximately 5 Kelmtrut in the rate and larger surrounding cities in terms of population are housing (COR center) and Monastir (mandate of the center), Mahdia (state center) and other cities all delegations of Khmam Sousse and Castle Minor and major castle centers. Sousse is located at distances is a big important cities in Tunisia: is located 140 km south of Tunis and 50 km east of Kairouan 20 km west of Monastir, 120 km north of Sfax.

Sousse

Fayoum the beautiful Egyptien city

Fayoum is distinct from the rest of the oases of Egypt that they do not drink from the rich eyes that only owned water, but Troy gardens singing of the Nile River, which is not a coastal city, as it is located in the heart of Egypt, but nature does not deprive it of the most beautiful beaches on one of the largest and most famous lakes in Egypt, a Lake Qarun.




Located Fayoum a hundred kilometers south of Cairo, and for being with specifications a special area has been awarded history best treasures, leaving them went his mark, and given the geography sweeter climate and natural features, while leaving history where many of the effects and fingerprints in a wonderful paintings are, for example, dignified for the advancement of imaging in Roman times and is known for paintings as "images of Fayoum," which reflect the history of the region in Roman times and the value of the art of the ancient Egyptian embalming, the Greek civilization.




The object of Fayoum link between the ancient art imaging and art in the Middle Ages, and this makes her a great and unique artistic and historical significance, having lost art of photography models in antiquity, as well as being constituted an important moment, decisive in the history and development of the ancient painting and it the starting point of stage art to express all ages Christian Art Byzantine mosaic is also the oldest painted on wood.




The appeal Fayoum amateur comfort, tranquility and nature lovers and Beauty for the large number of fruits and scenic gardens has helped her gain this status, the nature of the soil, which levels up and down as well as the different streams and mills that are characterized by strongly and managed Andva.
Fayoum

Damascus

Damascus, the Syrian capital, which is the oldest city in the world, has occupied a prominent position in the field of science, culture, politics, the arts and literature during the third millennium BC. M, and was the capital of the stages of many civilizations in its long history and became the capital of the Arab-Islamic state in 661 days of the Umayyads. And knows that at the end of the second millennium (s. M.) Founded the Aramean kingdom Reason leader in Damascus was the capital of him. Damascus has a population of about 6.2 million people, according to statistics in 2004. Part of the city on the slopes of Mount Qassioun and largest section of Damascus is located, including the ancient city, located on the southern bank of the Nherberdy, while modern neighborhoods spread over the North and West Bank. Damascus is the heart of the province of Damascus, which is surrounded by orchards and Gota mountain and hill Qassioun Damascus
You shown the pictures to educate you about it
Damascus
Damascus

Port Said Egypt

Port Said is an Egyptian coastal city, located north-east of Egypt, and overlooking the Mediterranean Ssahelsear when Mdkhalguenah Suez, bounded on the north Mediterranean, and Cno.hafezh North Sinai and Ganubmhafezh Ismailia and Gharbmhafezh Damietta, of Port Said area of about 1351.14 square kilometers, and a population according to the 2006 Census approximately 570 603 people, divided city of Port Said to six administrative districts are South neighborhood, neighborhood Arabs, climate neighborhood, suburban neighborhood, flowers neighborhood, Al Sharq, in addition to Medintibor Vaeduafarama.tdm Port Said many distinctive features, the most important of the free zone, which established in January 1, 1976 an area that has the right franchise in customs treatment, as well as Elymaina port Said, which is one of the most important ports in Egypt because of its location located at the north of the Suez Canal entrance, in addition to the Suez Canal Authority building, which is one of the most important Islamic monuments in port Said, and many museums Mthelmthv port-Harbi which documents triple Hakbhaltan of the city, and the National Museum of Port Said, which displays the history of the city since its inception in 1858 to the modern era.

Due to the establishment of the city of Port Said in 1858, when

Naming

Derived Port Said name of a compound of the word PORT meaning the port and the word happy ruler of Egypt name as the historical beginning and is due out label to the International Committee of which are from England, France, Russia, Austria and Spain, however, Monte, where the committee decided at the meeting, which was held in 1855 to choose Port Said Name

  History

After the Mseoffrdinand de Lesseps an international engineering committee to study the engineers report Mocal and Linan your great Egyptian government engineers Commission visited the Isthmus of Suez, Port Said and issued their report in December 1855 and confirmed the possibility of splitting the channel and it is not fear of the water level, because Bahrain equal stage and it is not fear of Nile silt because the coast of Port Said Erji.akb a report of the International Committee Osdralkhdioa happy Furman franchise was the second of its clauses (third item) to dig the canal from the Mediterranean when Minaouasuez Elysear Nqthkhalaj Farma. April 25, the Commission held a meeting and took a number of decisions, including the establishment of a lighthouse to guide ships coming to the entrance of the channel and the location of the port and the establishment of workshops and machinery and all necessary for the preparation of these workshops to work and create a bridge from Port Said installations into the sea also be a pier for docking it to unload their goods. In November 22, 1858, the Supreme Council for the work and the works of the Suez Canal (during the IPO in the company's shares) predicted two decades to implement the first phase of the business with Monsieur Hardon 21 April 1859 Monsieur de Lesseps to Port Said arrived, accompanied by Monsieur Mocal your Director General of Works and Monsieur Laroche and Hardon and other heads of the project, agents and one hundred and fifty sailors, drivers and workers, along with what Acfhm of food and drink, and they arrived to Port Said on the beautiful roads and had a beautiful village and the fishermen and located 9 km from Port Said and persuaded Monsieur de Lesseps that this place is in favor of the establishment of Port Said. Port construction work continued and the company encouraging Egyptian workers to work and set up their nests area Arabs and appointed imam of the mosque of the village Muslims. The company is focusing on making the Port valid docking having established the mechanical workshops (such as carpentry and blacksmith and turning and casting metals and attracted factory Bricks and basins of the port and dug industrial inner channel up between constructors harbor and Lake Manzala to transport materials supply drinking water by boat.

At the beginning of the first months of the establishment of Port Said used the majority of the workforce in the realization of the bridge portions of Lake Manzala where you do not exceed the width of Port Said from 40 to 50 meters and the dredgers shifting huge amounts of sand from the harbor basin used in the work of filling the city and spread to the south of where the basin arsenal in 1862 urged There are workshops start in use in 1863, the city took the form of a rectangle nigh the village Arabs were in the far west of Port Said and was no more than ten Port Said in the beginning and took shape form miserable was Acha of woven and then used the wood panels after it was separated between the village and the city land space area of about 500 meters and shrunk that area to 200 meters in 1869 and then faded away and joined the village to the city and in 1868 completed the work of bridge parts of Lake Manzala West arsenal Street the total amounts backfill 628.300 cubic meters in size and have helped to give the Port of new land have been building workshops on them.

After beginning the work of Port Said during dredging the channel and receive the materials needed for drilling gear and after the establishment of paving Eugenie was necessary to create Hajzan waves when the channel, one entrance at the east and the other in the west of the protectors of the port of natural factors and to make the quiet waters within the stream channel and the face of sediment and sand paid by current Maritime which may adversely affect the level of the channel depth and knew barrier eastern behalf stone happy and western behalf de pier space and initiated created in 1859 began Ougeny Street and its junction with the Palestine Street (Sultan Hussein or de Lesseps Street currently) and ends at the depth of the water at a depth of 10 meters and a total length 2500 meters and a height of 2 meters above the ground level of the barrier east Venthy in water at a depth of 8 meters and start working understanding in 1866 and finished it in 1868 and reached a length of 1,900 meters and a height of 1 meter and meet both checkpoints in part at the entrance to the port and built sidewalks in addition to the island fishing port of stone limestone and assigned manufactured and transported to the Brotherhood Dassault was made in Alexandria quarries Max talents one stone 20 tons and made 250000.00 (two hundred and fifty thousand) cubic industrial rocks and made of concrete Adakkhom and lime water to prevent sand leakage initiated in flooding in August 1865.

And in 1870 was in Port Said 3 basins western shore of the yard is the basin of Commerce (allocated to local boats and small dock) and Arsenal (devoted to the hardware channel and found around the company's workshops) and Basin Sheriff (and devoted to the docking corporate Alkery large commercial vessels such as Lloyd's Austrian and Almsagiiry Imperial French, Russian Navigation and Marversnyh from Marseille). Been making temporary lighthouse of wood in 1859 on the coast and it was lights up to a distance of 10 miles, and after the construction of de Lesseps pier start building a new lighthouse current location in March 1870 and built of concrete and was a gray color the barrier east has put its lantern lights up over the 20-mile The gas lights Alastbbah.

Flags Port Said

One of the most important and longest streets of Port Said, which intersects with the majority of accidental streets of Port Said, such as the Department of Agriculture Street and 100 Street fractions commercial street and Hamidi and Thalathini and Aogina and Abbas Ebadi and godfathers and July 23 and ask the sea which is along the road leading to the city of Cairo, the direction of the Ismaili .. It is characterized by severe congestion throughout the year today, and has some of the markets and famous shops, mosques and churches and has to invest the general area and, for example, shows Zeiny four famous in the field of home appliances and electronic devices, which lies on Mnmalthelathinat historic Site in commercial street entrance to the intersection with Mohammed Ali Street (martyrs) and markets Damietta and garden Farma School Ltinays and Okandh Muhammad Ali the Great mosque Abbasi and restaurant Ghoneim and building Port Said at the intersection with Avenue July 23 and ends Mreha..street Republic village (with a main street of the same name Fouad) and is considered one of the most important streets of the city starts from infectious field to the sea put Street and has a central bank Port Said branch Bank of Egypt, National Bank and Bank of Alexandria and school nuns and Franciscans Cinema Rio and confectioner Giannola, as well as many high-end shops and building e and move in only one direction, sea launch Street (Alshahydatef Sadat) is the most important streets of the city at all, and is a breather entertainment for the people of the city and expatriates Allehau is parallel to the streets Atalatana and Ogina and starts vertically on Republic Street and ends perpendicular to the Secretary on the street there in the beginning of peace collector and hotel Helnan then Nawras tourist Village and collector army then Nawras Mall and village Curlew then the new malls and village hello cultural Foundation and experimental school then collector beach and new tourist complexes, restaurants and there Steamboat Stadium Egyptian Club, Street July 23, Salah Salem Street, Ogina Street (the original name of the name of the empress Eugenie France), Mohammed Ali Street, Memphis Street, Ebadi Street, Orabi Street, Abbas Street, 100 Street, the Secretary-street, street and coasts Aswan Street

Neighborhoods of Port Said old neighborhood Alao and is a city located Grbaknah Suez directly and is bordered to the north Mediterranean and consists of the righteousness of the British dander Raswa mainland eastern and who knew what after Fouad and was initially a subsidiary of the Suez Canal, workshops, group and fired on the city district name syphilis and was inhabited by foreigners and a few Egyptians.

District II, a neighborhood of the Arabs and is located west of the city and home to national and sons of the Arabs from the region and is divided into lanes and streets and each lane sheikh and knew the neighborhood as District Arab and chosen this place to its distance from the effects of mixing with foreigners in addition to its proximity to Lake Manzala, where fishing and ease of navigation to Damietta and the status of housing initially established engineers and workers of the company on April 1859 in tents, and soon replaced the wooden stalls have been described on the Port Beach the Arabs have stayed at nestling pitiful quickly destroyed by fire and replaced by houses of building materials and attend the rain, wood, attending from Damietta. And in 1861 the number of dwellings
Port Said Egypt
Port Said Egypt

Pyramids of Sudan

This is known today as the Al-Ahram (pyramids Begrawiya)
Proportion of Begrawiya village near the city of Shendi, about two hundred miles to the north-east
From the Sudanese capital Khartoum.

The scientific name is (Pyramids of Meroe)
It is from the effects of a Nubian kingdom called Great (Kush).
Kingdom of Kush, which seized control of the southern part of the Nile Basin to the south of Pharaonic Egypt
Originated by a thousand years of almost Christmas,

However, they were not the first the kingdom in this region
But is an extension of the oldest civilizations of the oldest Nubian civilization originated about three thousand years BC before
In the city (vine), the effects of which are still remaining near contemporary border between Egypt and Sudan

Amaze effects planned by distinguished scholars 1,500 years ago of Birth
Pharaoh Thutmose III ordered the construction of the city's wort (open Alaba) following the occupation of the territory of the Nuba
To be the center of the southern province of Egypt,
And remained north of Sudan (who knew Kush later)
Follower of Pharaonic rule for five centuries complete
Which left many of the effects of such a temple to the god Amun.

In 1070 BC Deputy Pharaoh announced Kush
The independence of the region from the Pharaonic administration
And taken from the plant (which is located next to the current dignified City, 400 kilometers to the north of Khartoum)
His capital, and kept the kings of Kush usually pharaonic burial of kings
In the tombs of luxury property in the form of pyramids,
Pyramids of Sudan
Pyramids of Sudan
Pyramids of Sudan

Mostaganem Province....Algeria

Mostaganem Province
One and Ayataldzaúr located on the north side and overlooking the Mediterranean Hatisear. The state capital, is Medinhmstganm, one of the most important cities Alssahelah.oualemarovh Bedouin Bouapotha The length of the coast of Mostaganem Province 104 kilometers while the number of beaches, 32 of which 16 beach-oriented tourism. Bounded on the west and Aetemaskar and Oran, from Aljnopolaata camp and Ghlizan The Middle and Aatealhlv and Ghlizan. With a population according to the latest statistics about 704.000 people, where young people represent at least 35 years of 74.35%.

Climate
Is known as a Mediterranean climate Dhusta moderate Bmoghaiathih ranging from 350 mm to 400 mm in Mrtfatjebal Dahra and summer hot and humid somewhat.

Terrain
Present low Balolaahshol arable western region and as well as the East and there Tdayjebal Dahra Mountains.

The state's economy
Considered Mostaganem Province peasant primarily agricultural land with an estimated area of about 143.689 hectares, of which 131.179 hectares suitable for Zraah.kma it abounds Bmainashehad and important fish wealth is that the annual production is weak and an estimated 3,000 tons. Some likely that this is due to a lack of financial resources for Responsible. The industrial sector played an important role as we find Bmstganm Cherkhtkirr where sugar is a unit of the four units which are located in Algeria. There are other units in each of the Khamis Milyana (and Aahaan oleander), Sfissef (Sidi Bel Abbes) and Guelma (and Aahqalma). In addition, we find tobacco factory, the factory there as well as High School, the center of residential neighborhoods, which poses a threat to the health of students and residents.

Date of Mostaganem
Mostaganem reported in Ktapatarrakhabn Khaldun under the title "the news leader for Antza son has enabled the country of Mostaganem," where he said: "...... was Yaghmurasen Ibn Zyan often used his relatives in the kingdoms and Aoulihm the prefectures and had Astouhh of Yahya bin enabled the leader and his son and Grabhma to Andalusia Vojaza from there to James, son of Abdul Haq years eighty and Kieh Tangiers in a jihad movements. the creep Jacob bin Abdul Haq Elytelmusan Aamiz two in its entirety Vadrkihma gadfly meant Qovernmma and impact paradox Sultan them authorized them to take off and really Bigmrasn bin Xian. even if they located him Boukrzzouzh years eighty as we did and creep beyond the country's Maghraoua, Médéa and defies a fixed bin napkin for Milyana and retire due Elytelmusan used to Tgrmestaganm leader bin Yahya bin enabled. When he arrived Elytelmusan breaks him and called for the dispute and money enemy of Maghraoua, Médéa on demonstration it held firm to Igmrasn and Ahgerh them even managed to leave him at peace was held him leave ..... "this is evidence of the long history of the country of Mostaganem, as referred to by Ibn Khaldun.

Saturday, November 29, 2014

The Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca

The Hassan II Mosque is the largest religious building in the world after the mosque of Mecca. Completed in 1993, this monument is the result of a mix between traditional craftsmanship and high technology. Located north of the city, the mosque was erected 2/3 ocean ?? a kind of mosque on stilts feat worthy of a monument of this importance. Note: This mosque is one of the few Moroccan mosques open to non-Muslims. The entrance is very expensive, count 100 dirhams per person.
The minaret of the mosque is the highest in the world and rises to 200m, twice the height of Notre Dame de Paris. Never a muezzin will have been closer to Allah during his lifetime! At the top of the minaret, two lasers with a range of 30 km are continuously directed toward Mecca. The building is really daunting! More than 100,000 faithful can come to pray with 25,000 inside the mosque and 80,000 on the huge outdoor esplanade.

Besides gigantic proportions, the Hassan II Mosque is a showcase of Moroccan craftsmanship. Although the architect and the project manager are French, respectively Michel Pinseau and Bouygues, the mosque was designed in order to blend harmoniously modernism and Moroccan architecture. During the 5 years of work, tens of thousands of artisans of the country have actively collaborated. The best expressed their talent in the beautiful interior of the mosque. The frescoes, zelliges, Venetian stucco and carved cedar participate in prestige of the monument.

Another surprise, the roof of the mosque is based on a slide. One can open the roof of the mosque by great heat in just 3 minutes. Furthermore, the mosque includes a library, a Koranic school, a museum and several conference rooms.

Finally, this splendid mosque was intended by the late King Hassan II himself who wanted to show the world the face of a modern Morocco. Perhaps he also wanted to make history and ensure that his name does not sink into oblivion, just like his ancestors Alawites, recognized as great builders. Anyway, this beautiful mosque in Casablanca gives a spiritual and artistic dimension it had not before.


practical information

Open to non-Muslims must be accompanied by a mosque guide.
Entrance fee: 120 dirhams per person. Student Discount: 50 dirhams (on presentation of student card).
Visiting hours: 9H, 10H, 11H and 14H every day except Friday.
The Hassan II Mosque

The Hassan II Mosque
The Hassan II Mosque

Photos are taken by me
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