Mohandesin
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Mohandiseen (, ) is a major 1940s sub-division project originally named Madinat al-Awqaf, and made up most of the Wasat (middle) district in the city of Giza, before being divided in 1997 into the districts of Agouza (covers most of the district) and Dokki (Covers half of the district). Al-Mohandessin in Arabic literally means the engineers, after one of the sub-districts that was sold to the Engineers' Syndicate cooperative, and becoming the colloquial name for most of the Agouza side.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Mohandessin
- Settlement.native_name
- المهندسين
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Planned community
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- Raid 1948 Madinat al-Awqaf Masterplan - Copy.jpg
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- Original master plan of Mohandessin in 1948, then known as Madinat al-Awqaf
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- Egypt
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 200
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- Location in Egypt
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Giza Governorate
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.timezone
- EST
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +2
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Mohandiseen (, ) is a major 1940s sub-division project originally named Madinat al-Awqaf, and made up most of the Wasat (middle) district in the city of Giza, before being divided in 1997 into the districts of Agouza (covers most of the district) and Dokki (Covers half of the district). Al-Mohandessin in Arabic literally means the engineers, after one of the sub-districts that was sold to the Engineers' Syndicate cooperative, and becoming the colloquial name for most of the Agouza side.
== History ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mohandesin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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