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Alexandria ( / ˌ æ l ɪ ɡ ˈ z æ n d r ɪ ə / or / ˌ æ l ɪ ɡ ˈ z ɑː n d r ɪ ə / ; Arabic : الإسكندرية al-Iskandariyyah ; Egyptian Arabic : اسكندرية Eskendereyyah ; Coptic : Ⲣⲁⲕⲟⲧⲉ Rakotə ) is the second largest city and a major economic centre in Egypt , extending about 32 km (20 mi) along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the north central part of the country. It is also the largest city lying directly on the Mediterranean coast. Its low elevation on the Nile delta makes it highly vulnerable to rising
Alexandria was founded around a small Ancient Egyptian town c. 331 BC by Alexander the Great . It became an important center of the Hellenistic civilization and remained the capital of Hellenistic and Roman and Byzantine Egypt for almost 1000 years until the Muslim conquest of Egypt in AD 641, when a new capital was founded at Fustat (later absorbed into Cairo ). Hellenistic Alexandria was best known for the Lighthouse of Alexandria ( Pharos ), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ; its Great Libra
Alexandria was a cargo-carrying three-masted schooner built in 1929. Originally named Yngve , she was built at Björkenäs, Sweden, and fitted with a 58 H.P. auxiliary oil engine.