Abdeen Palace was one of the palaces of the former Egyptian royal family, the descendants of Mohamed Ali. It was built by Khedive Ismail, though he never actually lived in it. ... Khedive (from Persian for lord) was a title created in 1867 by the Ottoman Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz for the then-governor of Egypt, Ismail Pasha. ... Jump to: navigation, search Ismail may refer to: Ishmael, son of Abraham, mentioned in both the Torah and the Quran Izmail, a town in Ukraine This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ...

The palace was originally built on land belonging to an Ottoman Turkish nobleman named Abdeen Bey. The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power Imperial motto El Muzaffer Daima The Ever Victorious (as written in tugra) Official language Ottoman Turkish Capital İstanbul ( Constantinople/Asitane/Konstantiniyye ) Sovereigns Sultans of the Osmanli Dynasty Population ca 40 million Area 12+ million km² Establishment 1299 Dissolution October 29, 1923...

The palace became the centre of the royal court, rather then the Citadel of Cairo, which had been the centre of Egyptian government since the Middle Ages, during the reign of King Fouad I. The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ...

The palace, located in the Old Cairo district of Abdeen is today a museum. The upper floors, (the former living quarters of the royal family), are reserved for visiting foreign dignitaries. The lower floors contain the Silver Museum, the Arms Museum, the Royal Family Museum, and the Presidential Gifts Museum. A new museum, the Historical Documents Museum was opened in January 2005. Among other documents, it contains the Imperial Ottoman Firman, or decree, which established the rule of Mohamed Ali and his family, and a certificate for the Order of the Iron Crown, from the short-lived South American Kingdom of Aracuania and Patagonia.