Mansourah (Egypt)
See also: Mansourah
Mansourah is a city of the North-East of the Egypt in the east of the Delta of the Nile, to 120 km of the Cairo, chief town of the governorship of Dakhalieh, on the Eastern arm (Damiette) of the the Nile. Its population was estimated at 371.000 inhabitants in 1992.
Mansourah is a shopping mall and industrialist (textile industries and food). The city shelters the university of Mansoura (1972) and the polytechnic institute of Mansoura (1957). It is one of the more big cities of Egypt after Cairo, Alexandria and Port-Saïd but it receives very few tourists.
History
Founded at the beginning of the 13th century, it was the theater of famous a Bataille of Mansourah in 1250, during which the Francs overcame with difficulty the Moslems who a little later made captive Louis IX. Dar Ibn Lockman, the house where Louis IX was imprisoned, is now transformed into museum.Another interesting site is the palate of Shinnawi. It was built by an Italian architect in 1928 and is considered by certain most beautiful in its style apart from Italy.
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