The city of Rashid, known throughout history since ancientEgyptian pharaohs and the city has a national history andarchitectural heritage unique and derives its name from thePharaonic name "Rkhitt" is the name of Delta residents, whichturned into a Coptic name "Rchit" and then morphed into"rational." And enter the translated Greek armies of Alexander the Great and the establishment of their capital city of Alexandriabecame the second city of Rashid, the most important country of Egypt, and through the virtue of the Ptolemies and the Romansand then the Islamic conquests, which flourished in the greatprosperity of the Ottoman period. The Eternal City, whichenjoyed since ancient times, visits of travelers and sailors, historians, philosophers, and sultans, kings and presidents, Fotitland in ancient times the feet of Herodotus and Astrapon andFilaus and Helena and Alexander and Amr bin Aas and the Beyand Ghouri and Saladin and Napoleon "..
And because many scientists such as Alfred Lucas credit for the city of Rosetta and its port in the renaissance of Europe's urban period Gothic and early Renaissance where it is stated that Monat construction Alojiar water was produced in Egypt in time for this purpose, quoting Travelers Sandys "In in 1610, while was passing through the desert between Alexandria and Rosetta see palm trees and big land is planted and the grass he calls Arabs Qilya scattered here and there.. They are using this grass as fuel and then collecting Alermdh and Ashakunha together and Akhaltonha limestone during the burn, and sell them in large quantities to the people Venice "(Venice Italian for now). And said this to say about the same in each of the ray in 1693 m and Beilun in the year 1553.
And full of history of Rashid in the Islamic period many of the archaeological evidence, which are rooted in the depth of this date, due to its groves religious and civil, are an open museum, it includes twenty-two houses archeological features multiple floors that in some cases, from 5 to 7 floors and all built of red brick and brick-Rashidi black or what is known as Alanjur (brick color), and the houses reflect the McCann is characterized by the people of the city in that era of progress in architecture, carpentry, construction, and reflect the Islamic character, who was present at the time and containing tasbil and galleriesreception and inscriptions Coffee or domes, brick, and features of these houses archaeological rational existence cabinets wall of wood above each Khornqat, and these tires Shutters (Dilv) made of wood, local arabesques and dishes asterisk, as Halit walls of some rooms faience and rooftops by the tendency is moving towards openings of exchange that you find from the outside is a channel for the exchange on the street to drain water that collects it, and furniture in the Ottoman era which saw the construction of these houses was simple and occupies a large area of the cabins, Valdoalib hangings, sofas and the family is the sessions are built from the walls were carpeted Balhashiyat upholstered , and covers the beautiful lacy kinds of textiles and beautiful Alokelmh made. As I prepared these homes to be accommodation and artifacts in order to be prepared as well as military fortifications when needed in times of war. Unlike the houses there are ten mosques, a hammam and a mill and the gate and the castle wall and the remnants of old, these buildings back to the Ottoman period with the exception of Bey Citadel and the remnants of fence and gate Rosetta will return to the Mamluk period. Among the most important houses relics in the city house Alomesela and the home of Hassiba Ghazal and home Almizona and is the grandfather of Mohammed Almizona father Zubaydah doorman wife Francois Jacques Menou Commander III for the campaign of France to Egypt, which months, his conversion to Islam after that and called himself Abdullah Mino has immortalized the story of the late poet onGarem Ibn Rashid in his masterpiece novel (Ghada Rashid) and house sparrow, and there Alguenadela home and the home of Arabs and has a totally unique place among the ancient houses in the Rashid, where this position comes as a result of his choice then to be a museum reflecting the history of the city championships
It is home to the ancient mosques and the most important mosque Zaghloul, and this is the mosque of the oldest mosques in the city and carries the memory of dear to the hearts of Rashaida and all the Egyptians a victory over the campaign, Fraser, it is the minaret was launched health (God is great), marking the start of the attack on the pawns campaign, English has been This mosque as al-Azhar, where he was spot with science students and each had Sheikh column by, and the problem that has been subjected recently to a state of deterioration due to high water under the surface, and is what represents the first signs of water leaking down the foundations of ancient buildings Berrechid to ring the alarm. And there is a mosque and the local mosque and the mosque was built by the Abbasid Muhammad your Tbozadh in 1809 AD.
Takes Berrechid several castles oldest Bey Citadel, which has known historians of foreigners as Castle Julian, and the castle founded by Sultan al-Ashraf Bey year 1479 AD to defend the holes and the entrance is important to Egypt, a rectangular shape and has aspects of the four circular towers and Bosoarha Mzagl, and monsters Castle internal remnants of rectangular building was containing rooms for the soldiers and warehouses, a mosque and a water cistern, which vary in design from Bey Citadel in Alexandria, has been exposed to reforms and changes and additions since the nineteenth century, and in August 1799 found (Bouchard) one officer of the French campaign on the stone famous stone Rosetta under the rubble of this Castle, which was through deciphering ancient hieroglyphics and thus disclose all of Egyptian history, a Maady that became famous city more and more.
And archaeological sites, famous also in the city bath Azzouz, who Bnay in the early nineteenth century and consists of two groups, group home sits the teacher's bathroom where surrounding a marble fountain was in the roof Hkhchikhh of wood, while the second group Verdatha marble surrounding a fountain marble around the rooms to shower All ceilings in this section is a domes punctuated dishes, glass for lighting, and WH bath small house for the accommodation of the owner and staff, and in the back there is Hosh and Sakia old, provide him with water, and there are the city's mill antique famous is the mill Abu Shahin built in the early nineteenth century was Osman Agha Ataiwlake built a special grind grain, horses were administered, and the orbits of double the mill stones and wooden gears and extension of barn for livestock and a room for overnight miller.
This was the Rosetta epic along the Egyptian history, please do not lose it in the euphoria of construction and the opening and development of museums (Museum of Civilization, Grand Egyptian Museum, the Museum of Amarna, the Museum of Rashid, Arish Museum, Textile Museum, Islamic Museum, Museum of the Greco-Roman, etc. ..) as well as opening of the development and restoration in the southern region such as the temples of Karnak in Luxor, and the restoration of a cemetery Tut Amon set for next May and we are in front of events need solidarity of all workers in the field archaeological but solidarity of the Egyptian people in their battle with nature to preserve the record visible to the cities, historical in the north prov.