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Alexanria (Egyptian: Raqd.t; Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟⲧⲉ Rakotə; Egyptian Arabic: اسكندريه Eskendereyya; Arabic: الإسكندرية Al-Iskandariya; Greek, Ἀλεξάνδρεια), with a population of 3.5 to 5 million, is the second-largest city in Egypt, and is the largest seaport that serves about 80% of all of Egypt's imports and exports. Alexandria is also a very important tourist resort.

Trivia about alexandria

  • Cleo disguised herself as a slave to carouse with Antony in the streets of this city, her capital
  • According to ancient rumor, Mark Antony donated 200,000 books to this city's library
  • Zenodotus of Ephesus was this ancient library's first librarian
  • This Egyptian port city is named for the Macedonian king who founded it in 332 B.C.
  • The lighthouse on Pharos in the harbor of this Egyptian city was 1 of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World
  • It's said that the fires of this Egyptian lighthouse could be seen for about 30 miles
  • With a population of about 750,000, this Egyptian city was the second largest in the Roman Empire
  • In this Egyptian city, you're a little late to see the lighthouse, but you can still check out Pompey's Pillar
  • Founded in 332 B.C., this port city was designed by Dinocrates, architect to Alexander the Great
  • G. Washington helped lay out this city's streets in 1749; it's across the Potomac from Washington, D.C.
  • The bulk of Egypt's imports & exports pass through this port
  • Divers found the lost island of Antirhodos, where Cleopatra once lived, sunken off this city
  • In the 200s B.C. 72 Jewish scholars began translating the Pentateuch into Greek in this Egyptian city
  • Delta city with automatic door openers, washing machines, & a world-famous library
  • Around 284 B.C. Zenodotus of Ephesus became the first superintendant of this city's library
  • George Washington helped lay out the streets of this Virginia city
  • The Pharos Lighthouse is built in this Egyptian city
  • This second-largest city of Egypt is named for the "great" king who founded it; you can look it up in the library
  • The city where she died in 30 B.C.
  • Sostratus of Cnidus built this city's famous lighthouse in the early 3rd century B.C.
  • British author Lawrence Durrell is most famous for his "quartet" of novels set in this Egyptian city
  • Ptolemy I's improvements to this city included a library, a museum & a lighthouse
  • Galen studied medicine at Pergamum, Smyrna & this Egyptian city famous for a library & a lighthouse
  • Around 101, big steps in spherical trigonometry were being taken by Menelaus of this intellectual center of Egypt
  • There's still time to sign up for 18th century dance lessons at Gadsby's Tavern Museum in this northern Va. city
  • At one time George owned a townhouse in this Virginia city that shares its name with an Egyptian city
  • Hmm... Ptolemy I & II developed the library here; it had 500,000 scrolls & now it's just... gone? How do I write my report?
  • This Egyptian city earned the nickname "Mother of Books" from the library that was there in ancient times
  • Heading south from Washington, D.C., I go by this Virginia city where George Washington once drilled troops
  • (Jon of the Clue Crew points to an astronomical diagram on the monitor.) In the 200s B.C. Eratosthenes calculated Earth's girth using the difference in the angle of the Sun's rays between Aswan & this Egyptian city
  • ...heeding the call of the deep, toward the Eastern Harbor in this main Egyptian seaport

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