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.
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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