Aswan (Arabic أسوان), in the past Syène , is a city of almost: 250000 inhabitants, of the south of the Egypt, located on Right Bank of the the Nile where sail the Felouque S. It finds to approximately 843 km of the Cairo.

History

At the time of the Ptolémée S, it was divided into very differentiated districts, Éléphantine profiting from a residential nature and Eastern bank constituting an agglomeration of workmen and craftsmen.

This city, southernmost of Egypt was a long time one of the principal entries and exits of the Black Africa, giving rise to a flourishing trade on the road of the caravans. City-border, the Coptes named it Souan (trade).

This city is also known under the name of Syène. At the time Christian woman, Syène was the seat of a évêché. She was made famous for the experiment of Eratosthène aiming at determining the Circonférence Ground. This city was chosen by Erathosthène because of its proximity to the Tropic of Cancer: the Sun is then with the vertical of the city at the time of the Solstice of summer.

Economy

Tourism

The city draws a good part of its economic activity from the Tourisme, in particular of cruisings on the river since Louxor or on the Lac Nasser.

It was the preferred city of François Mitterrand which passed Christmas there each year.

Stopping

It is also known for its stoppings, the first builds by the British in 1908, the high stopping inaugurated by the president Sadate in 1971 creating a vast tank, the Lac Nasser. At the time of Nasser achieved the old dream of the Pharaons: to control the flood of the Nile god.

One finds there in the middle of the Nile the Elephantine Île and the Île Kitchener.

On the Level between the two stoppings, the island of Philae on which a temple of Isis was submerged during the construction of the high stopping, involving the rebuilding of the temple by UNESCO on the island of Aguilkia, 300 m more in north.

Culture

Inaugurated in 1997, the museum of antiquities of Nubie accommodates the vestiges of a civilization whose grounds were absorbed by the lake Nasser.

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