Digital Image: 1887 Egyptian Supervision of Public Work French-Arabic City Map or Plan of Giza
Ghizeh-alashghalaleumumia-1887_d
Title
Plan de la ville de Ghizeh / خريطة مدينة الجيزة.
1887 (dated) 39 x 26.25 in (99.06 x 66.675 cm) 1 : 2000
1887 (dated) 39 x 26.25 in (99.06 x 66.675 cm) 1 : 2000
Description
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Digital Map Information
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Egyptian Supervision of Public Works (1857 - 1914) (نِظَارَة الأشغال العمومية) was a government body under the khedivate government of Muhammed Ali and his successors. It grew out of an earlier office established in 1836, and after its name was changed in 1914 to the Ministry of Public Works (وزارة الأشغال العمومية) it continued to undertake the same mission of infrastructure maintenance and modernization, especially the canal system around the Nile. It is the basis for today's Ministry of Water Sources and Irrigation (وزارة الموارد المائية والري). For most of the 19th century, the office was strongly influenced by French engineering and cartography, including Xavier Pascal Coste (1787 - 1879), who was tasked by Muhammed Ali for undertaking several large-scale irrigation works. Following the British occupation of 1882, British engineers took over the department and launched even more ambitious projects, including the Aswan Low Dam, the largest dam of its kind in the world when completed. More by this mapmaker...
National Printing Press of Egypt (1820 - present) (المطبعه الأهليه) also known as the Amiri Press or Bulaq Press was the first modern printer in Egypt, and as a result has had a powerful influence on print culture in the modern history of Egypt and the wider Arabic-speaking world. Soon after taking power in Egypt, Muhammed Ali Pasha sent a mission to Milan to understand the latest European print methods. After several years of study and preparation, this effort resulted in the opening of a government-run printers in the Bulaq neighborhood of Cairo, soon afterwards changing its name to National Printing Press. It initially published works relating to military affairs and administration, but later expanded to include literary and scientific works in both Arabic and Ottoman Turkish. Among its publications were the Journal of the Khedive (Jurnal al-Khidiw / جرنال الخديوي), the first printed periodical in Arabic. It continued to publish groundbreaking works over the following decades, including in 1924 the King Fu'ād Quran, the first printed edition of the Quran approved by an Islamic authority (the al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo). Learn More...
References
OCLC 557554312, 243637751.