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Sixth Of October City
6th of October ( ar, السادس من أكتوبر, Al Sādis Min Uktōber; arz, ستة اكتوبر, Setta Oktōbar) is a city in Giza Governorate, a satellite town and part of the urban area of Cairo, Egypt, 32 km (20 miles) outside the city."To Catch Cairo Overflow, 2 Megacities Rise in Sand" article by Thanassis Cambanis in '''' August 24, 2010. Retrieved August 25, 2010. It has a population ranging between some 185,000 in the city to an estimated 500,000 inhabitants in the wider area. 6th of October was the capital of the now defunct |
Governorates Of Egypt
Egypt has a Centralisation, centralised system of local government officially called local administration as it is a branch of the Executive (government), Executive. The country is divided into twenty-seven governorates ( '; ; genitive case#Arabic, genitive case: ; plural: '), the top tier of local administration. A governorate is administered by a governor, who is appointed by the President of Egypt and serves at the president's discretion. Governors have the civilian rank of minister and report directly to the Prime Minister of Egypt, prime minister, who chairs the Board of Governors ''(majlis al-muhafzin)'' and meets with them on a regular basis. The Ministry of Local Development, Minister of Local Development coordinates the governors and their governorate's budgets. Overview Egypt generally has four tiers of local administration units: governorates, cities, counties ''(marakiz)'', districts (subdivisions of cities) and villages (subdivisions of counties). There is a tie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anwar El Sadat
Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat, (25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his Assassination of Anwar Sadat, assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. Sadat was a senior member of the Free Officers Movement (Egypt), Free Officers who overthrew Farouk I, King Farouk in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, under whom he served as Vice President of Egypt, Vice President twice and whom he succeeded as president in 1970. In 1978, Sadat and Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, signed a peace treaty in cooperation with United States President Jimmy Carter, for which they were recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize. In his eleven years as president, he changed Egypt's trajectory, departing from many of the political and economic tenets of Nasserism, re-instituting a multi-party system, and launchin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seoudi Group
The Seoudi Group is an Egyptian automobile manufacturer which was founded in 1975 with its current head office in Cairo. In the 1970s Seoudi Group began to import Suzuki commercial vehicles. By the 1990s the company was assembling Suzuki vehicles and manufacturing car seats and radiators, and was the sole importers of Nissan vehicles. The company also began its work with the ''Modern Motors S.A.E.'' which is specialized for manufacturing Nissan vehicles. From 1997 to 1999 the Modern Motors production plant was the first BMW producing company in Egypt followed by the ACVA joint-venture. In 1981 the company founded its second company called ''El-Mashreq Company'' and was now called a group. El-Mashreq Company is car importer for vehicles of the Italian brands Fiat and Alfa Romeo. The third assembly plant was opened in 1988. The plant is located in the 6th of October City 6th of October ( ar, السادس من أكتوبر, Al Sādis Min Uktōber; arz, ستة اكتوبر, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Motors Egypt
General Motors Egypt S.A.E. (, or short GME) is a car and motor vehicle manufacturer based in 6th October, Cairo, Egypt. The company's car factory is located in the 6th of October City and is one of the direct neighbors of the Egyptian German Automotive Company. Despite its name, the company is not a part of the General Motors Company, but only a joint venture with the local importer and car dealer Al-Monsour Automotive Company. Al-Monsour is the largest shareholder and with more than 1,000 workers the official owner and operator of the plant. Overview After eight years of successful cooperation with the American General Motors starting in 1975, the dealer made a proposal to build a production plant in Egypt. So the company was founded in the same year. One year later, the plant was opened in an internal opening ceremony. At the official plant opening in 1985 the first cars rolled off the company's production line. The opening speech was given by the former President of Egypt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egyptian German Automotive Company
The Egyptian German Automotive Company, or short EGA, is an Egyptian car assembler who is located in the 6th of October City. It was founded by engineer Samy Saad and the former Daimler-Benz CEO Jürgen Erich Schrempp as a joint venture to assemble vehicles of the Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz (), commonly referred to as Mercedes and sometimes as Benz, is a German luxury and commercial vehicle automotive brand established in 1926. Mercedes-Benz AG (a Mercedes-Benz Group subsidiary established in 2019) is headquartere ... brand. The management of the 1996 founded firm is assumed by the Daimler AG who has given it to Markus Schäfer. As of 2015, following the political and economic turmoil in Egypt, assembly of Mercedes-Benz passenger cars has ceased. Since then, the company has been offering sub-assembly for other Automotive assembly plants in Egypt. Brake Disc Machining The brake discs machining plant started operation in 2002, basically covering the local content requiremen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bavarian Auto Group
The Bavarian Auto Group is an Egyptian enterprise for manufacturing and selling BMW vehicles on the local market. The headquarters of the BAG is located in the '' Kattameya''. The assembly plant of the company is located in 6th of October City. It has a partnership with Indian car manufacturer Mahindra & Mahindra to sell the latter’s car in Egypt. Al Fotouh Company for Vehicle Assembly The ''Al Fotouh Company for Vehicle Assembly'' or short ''ACVA'', was the first step from BMW to manufacturing its vehicles in Egypt alone. It was founded in November 1999 in a small provisional assembling plant near to the current BAG plant. The production line were adopted from the former Egyptian BMW manufacturer Modern Motors in Cairo. Image:2000-2003 BMW 320Ci (E46) coupe 01.jpg, BMW 3 Series2000-2003 Image:BMW E39 Saloon 001.JPG, BMW 5 Series2000-2003 BAG products BMW Former Models File:2005 BMW 330Ci ZHP Silver.jpg, BMW 3 Series2004-2007 File:BMW-5series-E60.jpg, BMW 5 Series2004- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smart Village Egypt
Smart Village () is a high-technology business district in the city of 6th of October in Giza Governorate, Egypt, established by Presidential Decree no.355 in 2000, with activities starting in 2001. It is a business district with office buildings, retail shops, entertainment, factories and green spaces. It is located on the Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road, slightly west of Cairo, and occupies an area of 450 feddans. Its owned by Smart Villages Development and Management Company. Background Hosni Mubarak signed the decree and provided the land for the building of Smart Village, in order for Egypt to build its IT economy and IT industry. Mubarak worked to get Microsoft, IBM and Cisco on-board. The 2001 decree gave companies in the Smart Village a ten-year tax break. The plan was to create several ''smart villages'' in Egypt. Tenants The Smart Village contains government and ministry buildings, as well as private companies. The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Confederation Of African Football
The Confederation of African Football, or CAF for short (french: link=yes, Confédération Africaine de Football, ar, link=yes, الاتحاد الأفريقي لكرة القدم, al-Ittiḥād al-Afrīqī li-Kurat al-Qadam), is the administrative and controlling body for association football, futsal and beach soccer in Africa. It was established on 8 February 1957 at the ''Grand Hotel'' in Khartoum, Sudan by the national football associations of Egyptian Football Association, Egypt, Ethiopian Football Federation, Ethiopia, South African Football Association, South Africa and Sudan Football Association, Sudan, following formal discussions between the aforementioned associations at the FIFA Congress held on 7 June 1956 at Avenida Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal. One of the six continental confederations of world football governing body, FIFA, CAF represents the national football associations of Africa, runs national team and club continental competitions and controls the prize money ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pavilion
A pavilion is a type of building. Pavilion or Pavillion may also refer to: Places United States *Pavilion, New York, a town ** Pavilion (CDP), New York, census-designated place within the town *Pavillion, Wyoming, a town Canada *Pavilion, British Columbia, a ranching community and First Nations community ** Pavilion Indian Band, a First Nations government in British Columbia **Pavilion Lake, a lake near Pavilion, British Columbia **Pavilion Mountain, a mountain in British Columbia Named structures United Kingdom *London Pavilion, a shopping arcade *Royal Pavilion, a former royal residence in Brighton United States *The Pavilion (UC Davis), home to the UC Davis Aggies men's and women's basketball teams * The Pavilion at Ole Miss, home to the Ole Miss Rebels men's and women's basketball teams * The Pavilion (Scranton, Pennsylvania), an outdoor amphitheater within the Montage Mountain Ski Resort *The Pavilion (Vermont), the principal workplace of the governor of Vermont *Finneran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hot Desert Climate
The desert climate or arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification ''BWh'' and ''BWk''), is a dry climate sub-type in which there is a severe excess of evaporation over precipitation. The typically bald, rocky, or sandy surfaces in desert climates are dry and hold little moisture, quickly evaporating the already little rainfall they receive. Covering 14.2% of earth's land area, hot deserts are the second most common type of climate on earth after the polar climate. There are two variations of a desert climate according to the Köppen climate classification: a hot desert climate (''BWh''), and a cold desert climate (''BWk''). To delineate "hot desert climates" from "cold desert climates", there are three widely used isotherms: most commonly a mean annual temperature of , or sometimes the coldest month's mean temperature of , so that a location with a ''BW'' type climate with the appropriate temperature above whichever isotherm is being used is classified as "hot arid sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armed Forces Day
Many nations around the world observe some kind of Armed Forces Day to honor their military forces. This day is not to be confused with Veterans Day or Memorial Day. Africa Egypt In Egypt, Armed Forces Day is celebrated on 6 October, the date on which the Yom Kippur War, October War of 1973 began with the Egyptian Army's successful crossing of the Suez Canal that culminated in the capture of the Bar Lev Line. Liberia Public holidays in Liberia, Armed Forces Day is celebrated on 11 February. Mali Mali Army Day is celebrated on 20 January. Mauritania Mauritanian Armed Forces Day is celebrated on 10 July. Armed forces day is marked with events of national importance, such as flag raising ceremonies, awards ceremonies and military parades. It was established in 1960 by President Moktar Ould Daddah as a professional holiday for the armed forces, replacing the holidays of the separate branches of the armed forces, as well as resembling the Remembrance Day celebratio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
