Alexandria Tourist sites ( A Unknown Soldier )

A Unknown Soldier

Monument commemorating those who lost their lives in the October War is located in ElShohada Square, Its position made it the center of commerce between East and West, and fleets of grain ships sailed from Alexandria to Italy year after year. Gradually, however, the city lost its prosperity. A Jewish revolt in AD 116 resulted in the annihilation of the Jewish population and the destruction of a large portion of the city.  the Roman emperor In 215 Caracalla ordered a massacre of the male inhabitants of the entire city for reasons that remain obscure but might have involved a punishment for some form of seditious conduct. The founding of Constantinople (present-day Ýstanbul) further eclipsed the Egyptian metropolis