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Egypt Alexandria - encyclopedia article about Egypt Alexandria. (5743 words) |
 | Alexandria seems from this time to have regained its old prosperity, commanding, as it did, an important granary of Rome; this fact, doubtless, was one of the chief reasons which induced Augustus to place it directly under imperial power. |
| Alexandria consisted originally of little more than the island of Pharos, which was joined to the mainland by a mole nearly a mile long and called the Heptastadion ("seven stadia" — a stadium was a Greek unit of length measuring approximately 200m). |
| Alexandria is served by a network of trams traveling east and west roughly parallel to the Corniche, or sea wall. |
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