Alexandria

Located on the Mediterranean Sea coast, Alexandria (in Arabic, الإسكندرية, transliterated al-ʼIskandariyyah) is the chief seaport in Egypt, and that country's second largest city, and the capital of the Al Iskandariyah governate. It is located at 31°12′N 29°15′E, 208 km (129 miles) northwest of Cairo. The Canopic mouth of the Nile (now dry) was 19 km (12 miles) east, near the ancient city of Canopus ...

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Alexandria: Encyclopedia - The Alexandria Quartet The Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960. A critical and commercial success, the books present four perspectives on a single set of events and characters in Alexandria, Egypt, before and during World War II. The four novels are: Justine (1957) Balthazar (1958) Mountol ...

Alexandria: Encyclopedia II - Pappus of Alexandria - Theorems

In geometry, there are several theorems that are known by the generic name Pappus's Theorem, attributing them to Pappus of Alexandria. They include: Pappus's centroid theorem, the Pappus chain, Pappus's harmonic theorem, and Pappus's hexagon theorem. ...

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Library of Alexandria - Overview

Alexandria: Encyclopedia - Hypatia of Alexandria

Hypatia of Alexandria (in Greek: Υπατία) (c. 380 - 415) was a philosopher, mathematician, and teacher who lived in Alexandria, then a Greek city. Several works are attributed to her by later sources, including commentaries on Diophantus's Arithmetica, on Apollonius's Conics and on Ptolemy's works, but none has survived. Letters written to her by her pupil Synesius give an idea of her intellectual milieu. She was of the Platonic school, although her adherence to the writings of Plotinus, the 3rd century follo ...

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Alexandria: Encyclopedia - Clement of Alexandria

Clement of Alexandria (Titus Flavius Clemens), was the first member of the Church of Alexandria to be more than a name, and one of its most distinguished teachers. He was born about the middle of the 2nd century, and died between 211 and 216. Clement of Alexandria - Life. He was not born in Egypt (Stromata, i. 1). Athens is named as his birthplace by Epiphanius, and this is supported by the classical quality of his Greek. His parents seem to have been wealthy pagans of some social standing. T ...

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Alexandria: Encyclopedia - Athanasius of Alexandria

Athanasius of Alexandria (also spelled "Athanasios") (298–May 2, 373) was a Christian bishop, the Patriarch of Alexandria, in the fourth century. He is revered as a saint by both the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, and regarded as a great leader and doctor of the Church by Protestants. Roman Catholics have declared him one of 33 Doctors of the Church. His feast day is January 18. Athanasius of Alexandria - Historical significance. In about 319, when Athanasius was a deacon, a presby ...

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Alexandria: Encyclopedia - Alexandria Virginia

Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 128,284. It is located on the west bank of the Potomac River, six miles south of downtown Washington, DC. Like the rest of Northern Virginia, as well as southern Maryland, Alexandria has been shaped by its proximity to the nation's capital. It is largely populated by professionals working in the federal civil service, the U.S. military, or for one of the many private companies which contract to provide se ...

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Alexandria: Encyclopedia - St. Alexander of Alexandria

St. Alexander of Alexandra, Patriarch of Alexandria, date of birth uncertain; died April 17, 326. He is prominent because his appointment to the patriarchial see excluded the heresiarch Arius from that post. Arius had begun to teach his heresies in 300 when Peter, by whom he was excommunicated, was Patriarch. He was reinstated by Achillas, the successor of Peter and then began to scheme to be made Patriarch. When Achillas died Alexander was elected, and Arius was irked because he had been passed over. Alexander tolerated him in ...

Alexandria: Encyclopedia - Cyril of Alexandria

Cyril I (376 – June 27, 444), surnamed The Pillar of Faith, was Pope of Alexandria. He is revered as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, the Oriental Orthodox Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. In 1883 the Holy See declared him a Doctor of the Church. Cyril of Alexandria - Life and character. His early life is known only from notices in Socrates Scholasticus and a few elsewhere. He was a nephew of the archbishop Theophilus, whom he accompanied in 403 to Constantinople to attend the synod ...

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Alexandria: Encyclopedia - Catherine of Alexandria

Saint Catherine of Alexandria, known as Saint Catherine of the Wheel and The Great Martyr Saint Catherine (Greek ἡ Ἃγια Ἃικατειρίνα ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυς) is a figure claimed to have been a noted scholar in the early 4th Century who, at the age of only 18, is said to have visited the Emperor Maximinus II and to have attempted to convince him of the error of his ways in persecuting Christians (and having succeeded in converting Maxim ...

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Alexandria: Encyclopedia - Alexandria Eschate

Alexandria Eschate (Greek Ἀλεξανδρία Ἒσχατη, “Alexandria the Furthest”) was founded by Alexander the Great in 329 BCE as his most advanced base in Central Asia. It was established in the southwestern part of the Fergana Valley, on the southern bank of the river Jaxartes (modern name Syr Darya), at the location of the modern city of Khujand (also called Khodzhent, formerly Leninabad), in the state of Tajikistan. Alexander built a 6 kilometer brick wall around the city and, as for the other cities he founded, had ...

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Alexandria: Encyclopedia - Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria

His Holiness Pope Cyril (Kyrellos) VI of Alexandria, born Azer Ioseph Atta (August 2, 1902 – March 9, 1971), was Coptic Orthodox Pope from 1959 to 1971. Pope Cyril VI was born in Damanhour, Egypt, into a Christian family. He resigned a civil service position to become a monk in July 1927. He passed his probationary period and, on February 24, 1928, took his monastic vows and assumed the name Fr. Mina El-Baramosy. ...

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