Al-Iskandariyah / Alexandria

Maps on our site:

• 1550, Sebastian Munster, Cosmographiae Universalis, 1138
  
  
• 1575, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, map II-56
  
  
• 1615, Henry de Beauvau, Relation iournaliere du voyage...
  
  
• 1675, G.A. Remondini Viaggio da Venetia al St. Sepolcro...
  
  
• 1760-s, Antonio Borg, Piani diversi di tutte le isole..., pl. 102
  
  
• 1764, Joseph Roux, Receuil des principaux plans..., pl. 120
  
  
• 1764, J.-N. Bellin, Le petit atlas maritime, v. III, pl. 85
  
  
• 1764, J.-N. Bellin, Le petit atlas maritime, v. III, pl. 86
  
  
• 1801, William Faden, A plan of the Operations...

Located on narrow strip of land between Mediterranean Sea & Lake Mariut, now partially submerged; was center of Hellenic scholarship & science in Antiquity; built by Greek architect Dinocrates for Alexander the Great; was renowned capital of Ptolemies; noted for library & great lighthouse on Pharos; captured by Caesar in 48 BC; taken by Arabs in 640, by Turks in 1517; famed for convergence of Greek, Arab & Jewish ideas; occupied by French 1798-1801, by British 1892; evacuated by British in 1946.

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