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| Rashid Castle · برج رشيد | ||
| Governorate | Buḥeira | |
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| Residents | 15.825 (2006) | |
| height | 2 m | |
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The egyptian Village Rashid Castle (Arabic:برج رشيد, Burǧ Rashīd), also 'Izbat Castle Rashid (Arabic:عزبة برج رشيد, ʿIzbat Burǧ Rashīd), is located at Nile Delta on the west bank of the western arm of the Nile, about 7 kilometers north of Rashid. In the local Qait Bey fortress the Rosette stone found, with the help of which the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing could be deciphered.
background
Little is known about the village itself. It is the site of an important fortress in the course of Arab history. In 2006, 15,825 people lived here.[1]
Similar to in Alexandria let Qait Bey (1416–1496), Sultan of the last Mamluk dynasty, one at this strategically important point in 1479 fortress to be able to defend themselves against the rising Ottoman power in Asia Minor. Under the Ottoman rulers Selim I. the Mamluks were defeated in 1516/1517. The fortress was still in use.
The fortress regained importance when it was here in 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte on the ruins of the old fortress a new fortress that Fort St. Julien or. Fort Rosetta, built. The new construction of this fortress left the neighboring town Rashid become world famous, not because of the Napoleonic military expedition - this was a disaster - but because of the discovery of the Steins from Rosetta by the French lieutenant Pierre François Xavier Bouchard (1772-1832) July 15, 1799.
This dark gray granodiorite stone is 115 centimeters high and 72 centimeters wide. It contains a trilingual inscription (hieroglyphics, Demotic (hieroglyphic script) and ancient Greek) praising the king Ptolemy V and a decree of the Council of Egyptian Priests from 196 BC. BC and is now in the British Museum in London. With him succeeded in 1822 Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832) made the breakthrough in deciphering the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Champollion never provided a translation of the stone.
getting there
One achieves that 1 Village(31 ° 26 ′ 2 ″ N.30 ° 23 '29 "E) by taxi from Rashid from along the trunk road 58. The costs including the visit to the mouth of the Nile are around LE 30 (as of 9/2010).
Tourist Attractions
The only thing worth seeing is the restored fortress Qait Beywhich can be viewed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The admission price is LE 30, for foreign students LE 15 (as of 11/2019).
You enter the 90 meter long and 65 meter wide fortress in the southeast. The fortress has bastions in the corners, with the exception of the semicircular bastion in the northeast, the others are angular. A wide corridor runs along the inside of the wall, from which several stairs lead to the top of the wall.
In the middle area there are several mostly inaccessible buildings, in the south there is a large mosque.
kitchen
Restaurants or stands with simple dishes can be found in Rashid.
accommodation
Hotels can be found in Rashid or Alexandria.
trips
A visit to the Qait Bey fortress can be compared to that of the 1 mouth(31 ° 27 '46 "N.30 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ E) of the western branch of the Nile into the Mediterranean Sea and that of Rashid connect. The distances to after Rashid and the mouth of the Nile are 7 and 4 kilometers, respectively.
Web links
- The Wikipedia article Rosette stone describes the stone including the translation of the text.
Individual evidence
- ↑Population according to the 2006 Egyptian census, Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, accessed September 1, 2014.
