Ancient Egypt
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Heliopolis district
Heliopolis is one of the most prestigious neighborhoods in Cairo, founded by the Belgian Baron Amban and the palace known as the Baron Palace. It is characterized by the huge and luxurious buildings and metro lines that belonged to a Belgian company before the nationalization of the properties of foreigners in the sixties of the twentieth century. Last year, it celebrated its 100th anniversary.
Map showing the eastern districts of Cairo Governorate.
Map showing the neighborhoods of Heliopolis.
It is the great facade of Cairo from the east and one of the entrances to the bright capital and the first to receive arrivals from all over the world because of the Cairo International Airport and one of the entrances of the capital to those coming from Ismailia and Suez characterized by high level of population culturally and socially.
It is worth mentioning that we begin to review the history of the new neighborhood of Heliopolis, an area known as the ancient city of (en) Pharaonic, which was known in the Greek era as Heliopolis, the city of the sun, which was rain and Ain Shams.
In 1905, the government sold an area of 5952 desert acres to Baguas Nubar Pasha, governor of Egypt, and to Wad Amban, the owner of the Belgian Brussels Bank, to build housing projects and operate a metro line to connect them with Cairo due to urban expansion at the time. The company has a number of shops.
On 1/12/1910, the first metro lines were built, 27 locomotives were operated, and the first international hotel was opened in the suburb of Heliopolis Palace Hotel. Misr Electric Company was liquidated in 1960 and transformed into Heliopolis Housing which assumed responsibility for construction and construction.
The suburb was characterized by planning and successful implementation of the modern architecture to provide the necessary housing and public facilities and wide roads and gardens, and continued the movement of construction and construction and expanded the neighborhood of Heliopolis, and the neighborhood of Al Nozha separated from the neighborhood of Heliopolis on 01/07/1999
Landmarks of Heliopolis
The new Egypt has become the seat of government, where the palace of Orouba and the house of President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak and the landmarks of New Egypt Forest Park, Merryland Park Roxy area, and the Sun Club and Club Heliolido and Alnasr club and Club Heliopolis, one of the most important Egyptian clubs, including members of senior officials and businessmen, Where modern cinemas are dotted.
Estimated population in 1/7/2010: (121849) people
Total area: 134.32 km 2
Manned area: 2.65 km 2
Administrative boundaries of the neighborhood
The Eastern Limit: From Revolution Street to Kilo 65 Cairo / Suez Desert Road.
The Western Limit: Suez Bridge Street (individual numbers up to 121)
The northern border: Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Street until the field of recruitment to the right and left and the properties that open on Abu Bakr al-Siddiq and follow him.
The southern boundary: from the dome bridge and Ismail al-Fangari street in the direction ... [1]
Sheikhs
Marine Prairie
Marj Tribal
Pond of Hajj
Ezbet Al Nakhl
Kafr Al - Shurafa
Abu Sir
Kafr El Basha
Flags of Heliopolis
Ahmed Aboul Gheit (former Egyptian Foreign Minister)
Ahmed Badawi (Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces and former Minister of Defense and Production)
M. Mohammed Kamel Siddiq ((Armed Forces Officer and First Deputy Minister of Higher Education and former Governor of Giza))
Ahmed Rushdi (former interior minister)
Mohamed Abdelhamid Badawi (First Undersecretary of the Ministry of Social Insurance and Member of the Local Council of Heliopolis)
Osama Abbas (Egyptian actor)
Elham Shaheen (Egyptian actress)
Amin Al-Kholi (Egyptian writer and thinker)
Amin Huweidi (former Minister of War and Head of Egyptian Intelligence)
Engi Sharaf (Egyptian actress)
Antoine Bolly (King Farouk's men)
Inas Gohar (President of Egyptian Broadcasting)
Baron Imban (founder of the neighborhood)
بنت الشاطئ (Egyptian writer and writer)
Gamal Abdel Nasser (Former President)
Hatem Zulfikar (Egyptian actor)
Hassan al-Alfi (former Egyptian interior minister)
Hassan Youssef (Egyptian actor)
Rushdi Abaza (Egyptian actor)
Zizi Mustafa (Egyptian actress)
Sami Sharaf (Secretary of Abdel Nasser Information)
Samir Wali El Din (Egyptian Actor)
Sharaoui Gomaa (Former Minister of Interior of Egypt)
Shams El Baroudi (Egyptian actress)
Safaa Galal (Egyptian actress)
Safwat El Sherif (Former Chairman of the Egyptian Shura Council)
Salah Nasr (former Egyptian intelligence chief)
God made Abraham (writer)
Amer Munib (singer)
Abbas Mahmoud Akkad (writer, writer and Egyptian thinker)
Abdel Moneim Medbouly (Egyptian actor)
Abeer Sabri (Egyptian actress)
Alaa Wali El Din (Egyptian Actor)
Omar al-Mahishi (Libyan opposition)
Kamal El-Ganzouri (Former Prime Minister of Egypt)
Kamal Hassan Ali (Former Head of the General Intelligence Service - Former Minister of Defense - Former Prime Minister of Egypt - Former Egyptian Foreign Minister)
Laila Alawi (Egyptian actress)
Majed Salahuddin (Egyptian writer)
Mohamed Hosni Mubarak (Former President of the Arab Republic of Egypt)
Mohamed Sadiq (Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces, former Minister of Defense and Production)
Mohamed Lutfi Gomaa (Egyptian writer and translator)
Mahmoud Shaker (Egyptian linguist)
Mustafa El Nahas (Former Prime Minister of Egypt)
Moataz Wali El Din (Egyptian Art Producer)
Makram Ebeid (Former Egyptian Finance Minister)
Najla Fathi (Egyptian actress)
