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Identifier: egyptsdnhand00karl (find matches)
Title: Egypt and the Sûdân; handbook for travellers
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Subjects: Egypt -- Guidebooks Sudan -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker New York, C. Scribner's sons (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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35 4. Cairo. Plan ok Caiko. The cnmmoncst word for a street J9 fyhdri (FreneliChareh), meaning a main street, avenue, or boulevard; other words useda,ve Siklceh (street), Berh (touiI, also caravan-tvack), //<»•« (lane, also quarterof a town), and At/a (blind alley). Middn is a square. — Since the Britishoccupation the names of the streets have been written up at the cornersin Arabic, accompanied by Knglisb or French transliterations on a some-what inexact system (p. xxviii). Our plan follows this transliteration ingeneral, correcting, however, the more obvious defects (e.g. the Englishc« is represented, as in the text, by »). Some of the old French names,eonsecrated by usage, have l)een retained. a. Railway Stations. Hotels and Pensions. Restaurants and Cafes. Railway Stations. 1. Centkal Station (Gare Oeutrale, PI. IJ,1; Buflet),on the N. side of the town, 12 miu. from the Ezbekiyeh Garden, forAlexandria^ Port Said, Suez, the whole of the Delta, and Upper Egypt. —2. Pont

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