After an indecisive battle, Amalric retreated to Cairo and Shirkuh marched north to capture Alexandria ; Amalric followed and besieged Shirkuh there, aided by a fleet from Jerusalem.

The relic of St Athanasius the Great of Alexandria is currently preserved under the new Saint Mark Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Deir El-Anba Rowais, Abbassiya, Cairo, Egypt.

The uprising took place in Cairo, Alexandria, and in other cities in Egypt, following the Tunisian revolution that resulted in the overthrow of the long-time Tunisian president.

* Cairo & Alexandria Stock Exchange

Today it has campuses in Alexandria, Cairo, and various dioceses throughout Egypt, as well as outside Egypt, in New Jersey, Los Angeles, Sydney, Melbourne and London, where potential clergymen and other qualified men and women are taught many subjects, among which are theology, church history, missionary studies, and Coptic language.

* Pope of Alexandria, being the Diocesan Bishop of the Great and Ancient Metropolis of Alexandria, that is in Alexandria and the metropolitan province of Greater Cairo.

Egypt is divided into twenty-six governorates ( sometimes called provinces ), which include four city governorates: Alexandria ( Al Iskandariyah ), Cairo ( Al Qahirah ), Port Said ( Bur Said ) and Suez.

) people live in three major regions of the country: Cairo and Alexandria and elsewhere along the banks of the Nile ; throughout the Nile delta, which fans out north of Cairo ; and along the Suez Canal.

The Egyptian ISP market is fully liberalized and highly competitive, at least in Cairo and Alexandria, with over 220 ISPs offering a range of services, including dedicated, dial-up, pre-paid and premium services.

; domestic: principal centers at Alexandria, Cairo, Al Mansurah, Ismailia, Suez, and Tanta are connected by coaxial cable and microwave radio relay

Israel has an embassy in Cairo and a general consulate in Alexandria.

Defensive positions were constructed west of Alexandria and on the approaches to Cairo while considerable areas in the Nile delta were flooded.

The battle was a stalemate, but it had halted the Axis advance on Alexandria ( and then Cairo and ultimately the Suez Canal ).

* 2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins in Egypt, with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria, and throughout other cities in Egypt.

These are to be found in a monastery in Lower Egypt between Cairo and Alexandria.

Major universities include Cairo University ( 100, 000 students ), Alexandria University, and the 1, 000-year-old Al-Azhar University, one of the world's major centers of Islamic learning.

They also had other possessions in Jerusalem and Caesarea, plus smaller colonies ( with lesser autonomy ) in Cairo, Alexandria and of course Constantinople, where the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus granted them special mooring and trading rights.

In 1838 agreement was reached with Sultan of Lahej to permit a coaling station at Aden, thereby allowing the journey time to the Far East ( via the Mediterranean, the Alexandria to Cairo overland crossing and the Red Sea ) to be roughly halved compared with the traditional South Atlantic route.

Britain, however, feared that a canal open to everyone might interfere with its India trade and, therefore, preferred a connection by train from Alexandria via Cairo to Suez, which eventually was built by Stephenson.

He was also awarded the golden keys to the gates of the city of Cairo and Alexandria ( Egypt ).

* May 14 – May 17 – Violent anti-European riots occur in Cairo and Alexandria.

* July 12 – Battle of Shubra Khit between French and Mamelukes, during Napoleon's march from Alexandria to take Cairo.

When Dag Hammarskjold was negotiating the Middle East peace after Israel's 1956 invasion of Egypt, he soon found himself speaking the mysterious phrases of Cairo, a language as anarchic as Casey Stengel's.

Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah is claimed to have repaired the Old Cairo to Red Sea passageway, but only briefly, circa 1000 AD, as it soon " became choked with sand.

His uncle Khalil left Cairo soon after and Gamal's father was posted to Suez, where there was no suitable school for Gamal.

Upon returning to Cairo, Nasser soon had Amer, Sidqi, and nine other generals arbitrarily arrested due to both popular and governmental accusations that they were attempting to organize a military coup against him.

The planes, which carried 21 passengers each, flew on a route network centered in Nicosia that soon included Rome, London ( via Athens ), Beirut, Athens, Cairo, Istanbul, and Haifa.

In 1833 de Lesseps was sent as consul to Cairo, and soon afterwards given the management of the consulate general at Alexandria, a post that he held until 1837.

Naguib also began to study the Hebrew language in the 1950s, and soon after the Revolution he ordered that Hebrew be taught at military college and at Cairo and Alexandria universities, realising that the Egyptian army had been handicapped during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War by the fact that very few soldiers could interpret Israeli communications.

However, the syndicate is soon revealed to have become a large company, and then an international syndicate, making Minderbinder the Mayor of Palermo, Assistant Governor-General of Malta, Shah of Oran, Caliph of Baghdad, mayor of Cairo, and the god of corn, rain, and rice in various pagan African countries.

The deliberate mixing of Australian and Imperial troops was done with Chauvel's approval but was contrary to the policy of the Australian Government, which soon registered its displeasure, sending Brigadier General Sir Robert Anderson to Cairo to discuss the matter frankly with Chauvel and his superiors.

A plan was soon conceived to destroy the Mameluke beys encamped north of Cairo.

Norton was soon traded to the Atlanta Braves and with outfield trouble, the Mariners started a platoon with Bloomquist and Jeremy Reed in center field this allowed Cairo to be a back-up for struggling first baseman Richie Sexson.

At the start of the Civil War, Oglesby was appointed colonel of the 8th Illinois Infantry regiment on April 25, 1861, and was soon given command of the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, District of Cairo, Department of the Missouri, serving under the command of Ulysses S. Grant.

The air raids became intolerable to Manning, and she soon moved back to Cairo, where in the winter of 1941 she became press attaché at the United States Legation.

From this point on, the commanders-in-chief in Cairo knew Italian plans as soon as they were issued.

He was not, however, drawn far into what was soon known as the Auden Group ; he is identified much more with the type of poetry later exemplified by Lawrence Durrell, and is for some critics the stand-out in the Cairo poets.

He arrived in Alexandria in September 1825, and soon left for Cairo.

She then became a member of the Cairo Ballet Group and soon after moved to the Classical Ballet Group.

Later on, a fellow maid asks her if she'd seen her in Cairo the previous month, but soon realizes that she remembers her from the highly publicized trial where Alice was accused of throwing her baby off a train.

The cache was moved to Cairo as soon as possible to keep it safe from robbers.

Egypt, especially Cairo, received a large number of the exiles, who soon out-numbered the native Jews.