Rasheed Day Tour From Cairo

Rasheed Day Tour From Cairo

The city of Rasheed lies on the intersection of the Nile River and the Mediterranean Sea, making it a focal point for trade coming in from the Levant and Turkey. From there, the goods would be transferred to Cairo, Suez, and then further to India and the Far East. Rasheed was established as a port city by the Ottomans and further expanded by Muhammad Ali. On this tour, you will see the old Ottoman homes, mosques, and caravanserai and walk through a city that still maintains the spirit of the old days when it was first established.

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Stop At: Rasheed, Rashid, El Beheira Governorate, Egypt

Founded around in the 9th century, Rosetta boomed with the decline of Alexandria following the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517, only to wane in importance after Alexandria's revival. During the 19th century, it was a popular British tourist destination, known for its charming Ottoman mansions, citrus groves and comparative cleanliness.
The site of Rosetta was inhabited throughout the history of Ancient Egypt, then known as Khito, a hieratic word meaning "the populace", under Menes reign. In the Ptolemaic era, the town was renamed to Bolbitine (Bolbitinum, Bolbitinon, the name of one of the seven mouths of the Nile in Herodotus). In Christian Egypt, the town was again known by the vernacular (Coptic) name, now in the form Rashit/Rakhit/Rexi In the 850s, the Abbassid caliph ordered a fort to be built on the site of the Ptolemaic city, and the medieval city grew around this fort. During the Seventh Crusade, Louis IX of France briefly occupied the town in 1249. Under the Mamelukes, the city became an important commercial center, and remained so throughout Ottoman rule, until the eventual resurgence of the importance of Alexandria following the construction of the Mahmoudiyah canal in 1820. Rosetta witnessed the defeat of the British Fraser campaign, on 19 September 1807.


Duration: 4 hours