Shatby Beach Shatby ( ar, الشاطبي ') is a neighborhood in

Alexandria Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandri ...

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Institutions

Many important institutes are located in Shatby, such as: *

Alexandria University Alexandria University ( ar, جامعة الإسكندرية) is a public university in Alexandria, Egypt. It was established in 1938 as a satellite of Fouad University (the name of which was later changed to Cairo University), becoming an indepen ...

Bibliotheca Alexandrina The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Latin for "Library of Alexandria"; arz, مكتبة الإسكندرية ', ) is a major library and cultural center on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Alexandria, Egypt. It is a commemoration of the Library ...

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* El Nasr Boys' School *

El Nasr Girls' College El Nasr Girls' College (EGC) ( ar, كلية النصر للبنات) is a school in Shatby, Alexandria, Egypt. It was established in 1935, and was originally known as ''English Girls College''. History The college was founded in 1935 to comme ...

Lycée Français d'Alexandrie The ''Lycée Français d'Alexandrie'' is a French international school in Chatby, Alexandria, Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning t ...

(Lycée Al-Horreya) *Shatby

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Hospital *

Al Ittihad Alexandria Club Al Ittihad Alexandria Club ( ar, نادي الإتحاد السكندري), simply known as Al Ittihad, is an Egyptian sports club based in Alexandria, Egypt. The club is mainly known for its professional football team, which currently plays ...

Cemetery and war memorial

The main Alexandria cemetery complex is in Shatby. It was designed by Sir

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in 1919. It includes the Alexandria Military and War Memorial Cemetery, a Commonwealth War Cemetery that includes the graves of British and

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service personnel who died in the First and

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s.CWGC spell Shatby in its English rendering 'Chatby'. 2,259 are from the First World War and 503 are from the Second World War. Also in the military cemetery is the Shatby Memorial, which commemorates 986

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and

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service personnel who died at sea in the Mediterranean in the First World War and have no grave on land. Most were killed in the sinking of

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or defensively armed merchant ships, including , , , and . Commonwealth war graves are also to be found in: *Shatby British Protestant Cemetery, where are buried three British merchant seamen from of World War I and seven service personnel and a war correspondent of World War II, *Shatby Jewish Cemetery Number 3, where are buried 20 service personnel of World War I (of whom 19 are in one plot) and two of World War II, besides a memorial to fallen men of the Zion Mule Corps.

Tombs of El Shatby (El Shatby Necropolis)

Location

These tombs are situated at the north of

from the seaside, in the city of

east of Selsela area (ancient Lochias). The tombs were discovered by chance in 1893 and 1904 by chance by Giuseppe Botti and Evaristo Breccia.

History

The tombs are considered to be the most ancient tombs in

as it dates back to 320

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. As for Evaristo Breccia (The second director of the Graeco-Roman Museum in

) it dates back to the last quarter of the 4th Century and the beginning of the 3rd century

. immediately after founding the city of

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References

External links

Alexandria Egypt Tourism

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Bibliotheca Alexandrina
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