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noun - a town in Louisiana on the Red River
noun - the chief port of Egypt
A city of northern Egypt on the Mediterranean Sea at the western tip of the Nile Delta.
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Around 284 B.C. Zenodotus of Ephesus became the first superintendant of this city's library |
Sostratus of Cnidus built this city's famous lighthouse in the early 3rd century B.C. |
According to ancient rumor, Mark Antony donated 200,000 books to this city's library |
Delta city with automatic door openers, washing machines, & a world-famous library |
Cleopatra's royal residence was in this Egyptian port city; many artifacts have been recovered from its waters |
George Washington helped lay out the streets of this Virginia city |
Among ancient libraries Pergamon's was second only to this city's |
Ptolemy I's improvements to this city included a library, a museum & a lighthouse |
The bulk of Egypt's imports & exports pass through this port |
On the Potomac River near D.C.:AN AXLE RAID |
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The chief port of Egypt population 4,084,700 (est. 2006). Alexandria was a major centre of Hellenistic culture and was renowned for its extensive library (burned down in the 3rd century AD). |
the chief port of Egypt located on the western edge of the Nile delta on the Mediterranean Sea founded by Alexander the Great the capital of ancient Egypt |
a town in Louisiana on the Red River |
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Alexandria ( or ; Arabic: al-Iskandariyya; Egyptian Arabic: Eskendria; Coptic: ; Alexandria; Rakot) is the second-largest city in Egypt and a major economic centre, extending about 32 km (20 mi) along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the north central part of the country. Its low elevation on the Nile delta makes it highly vulnerable to rising sea levels. Alexandria is an important industrial center because of its natural gas and oil pipelines from Suez. Alexandria is also a popular tourist destination. * Alexandria was founded around a small, ancient Egyptian town c.332 BC by Alexander the Great. It became an important center of Hellenistic civilization and remained the capital of Ptolemaic (Greek) Egypt and Roman and Byzantine Egypt for almost 1,000 years, until the Muslim conquest of Egypt in AD 641, when a new capital was founded at Fustat (later absorbed into Cairo). Hellenistic Alexandria was best known for the Lighthouse of Alexandria (Pharos), one of the Seven Wonders of |