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Tahrir Square in Cairo

Information About Cairo's Tahrir Square

  • 05 16, 2023

Information About Cairo's Tahrir Square 

The heart of modern Cairo and its main entrance connects the square with several important axes such as Ramses, Jalaa, Talat Warb and Qasr al-Aini, and cuts Maidan Tahrir Street "Former Ismailia", connected to the Nile Palace Cobrian and extending east to Maidan "Bab al-Tuq" and Abedin Square, the street where Khadiwi Ismail wanted to link the barracks of the Nile Palace to Abedin Palace, the seat of the rule. The street also stretched west from the Jalaa Cobri to Boulac al-Dakrur.

Al-Maidan and Al-Shari 'a were previously known as "Khadiwi Ismail", relative to Saraya Ismaili, whom Al-Khadiwi Ismail had gifted to his third wife "Jehim Avat Khanem Avendi". The field was planned to be mediated by a statue of Khadiwi Ismail. However, following the revolution of July 1952, Egypt arrived and changed the name of the field to "Liberation" after the fall of the monarchy and the establishment of the Republic, as also called "Sadat", but liberation remained constant in people's minds.

You can see many famous places around the field and from them; The headquarters of the League of Arab States, the Egyptian Museum, Omar Makram Mosque, Omar Makram's four-storey underground car park with a public garden deck comprised of the statue of Omar Makram, Tahrir Complex, Ritz Carlton Nile Cairo.

At the beginning of the 1950s, Tahrir Square had a statue base that had not been placed. A statue of Khadiwi Ismail was to be installed on the base, as part of a project enthused by King Farouk at the time to link Tahrir Square - then known as Ismailia Square - and Maidan Abedin - Abidin Palace has the official headquarters of the King - by expanding the street connecting them and a statue of his father, King Fouad, in Abidin Square, and a statue of his grandfather, Khadiwi Ismail in Ismailia Square, thus linking the past and present, and Khadiwe Ismail established Ismailia Square, It was the building of the Abidin Palace and his son, King Fouad, who renovated the Nile Palace. s father and his grandfather and to remind the Egyptians of what they have done to the homeland. 

Although the Fouad statue had already been erected, erected in Abidine Square and surrounded by burial bands, awaiting the completion of the statue of Khodayo Ismail on the base allocated to him in Ismailia Square, the political situation had changed and the revolution of 23 July 1952 had brought the two projects to a halt, and months after its establishment, the King FOuFouad's statue had been removed from Abidine Square idine.

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"Tahrir" es una palabra árabe que significa "liberación" o "libertad". El nombre de la plaza refleja su papel histórico como escenario de importantes movimientos políticos y reivindicaciones de libertad.

A long time ago, there was a square called Ismailia Square named after a ruler named Khedive Ismail. But later on, it was changed to Tahrir Square in the 1950s. In 2011, something important happened in this square. People who were unhappy with their government stayed in the square for 18 days to show they wanted things to change.

Tahrir Square is situated in downtown Cairo, at the heart of the city. It is bordered by several major thoroughfares, including Qasr al-Nil Street to the north, Talaat Harb Street to the west, and the Nile Corniche to the east.

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