Synonyms:
Alexandria, El_Iskandriyah
Meaning: the chief port of Egypt; located on the western edge of the Nile delta on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by Alexander the Great; the capital of ancient Egypt
Synonyms:
Alexandria
Meaning: a town in Louisiana on the Red River
Usage examples
She was murdered not by a crazed individual but by the orders of the bishop of Alexandria.
On the third day they passed Mackenzie's farthest south--the site of the present Alexandria.
The one of real service was the Pharos, or lighthouse, at Alexandria, Egypt. This was a gigantic structure more than four hundred feet high on the top of which a great fire was kept burning at night, thus serving as a lighthouse.
It was, indeed, during this time that the world-famous cities of Alexandria and Cairo were built as well as the magnificent mosques that are the pride of all Islam, but these were all the work, not of the people themselves, but of the foreigners by whom they were held in thraldom, and are therefore monuments not of the country's glory but of its shame.