Aboukir (in Arab أبوقير) was the name of a village of the Mediterranean coast of the Egypt, located at twenty-three kilometers in the North-East of Alexandria. In this village a castle is that Mehemet Ali transformed into prison of State.

Close to the village remain of many vestiges of buildings ancient, Egyptian, Greek and Roman. It is supposed that the ruins located at approximately three kilometers in the south-east of the village are those of the city of Canope. A little little more in the east, the arm canopic of the the Nile (today dry) was thrown in the Mediterranean.

The vast bay of Aboukir (Khalīj Abū Qīr) extends to the east to the mouth from the Nile from Rosette. It is there that the 1798, the Admiral Nelson, ordering the British fleet, delivered the battles of Aboukir, also called battles of the Nile.

One also speaks about the battles of Aboukir for the engagement between the French army expeditionary and the janissaries Turkish which took place the July 25th 1799.

Close to Aboukir, the March 8th 1801, the British army ordered by Ralph Abercromby unloaded vis-a-vis a keen resistance of the French force cut off from the beach.