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Between Lake Mariout and the desert

From King Mariout and El Hawareya to El Nasiriya and the Bangar El Sokkar villages: meet El Amreya II District, its shiakhas, its history and its priorities.
The stone walls of Marea on the shore of blue Lake Mariout

The district in brief

El Amreya II is a district in south-western Alexandria, created from El Amreya District by prime minister’s decree 312 of 2015; its limits are those of the El Amreya II police qism. Its northern edge is the International Coastal Road from the Tameer axis bridge at Umm Zighiyu to the Borg El Arab airport roundabout road; its eastern edge is the Dhiraa El Bahari link road from kilometre 29 of the desert road; to the south it reaches kilometre 71.5 of the desert road, as the district’s document, published by Alexandria Governorate, sets it.3

The district holds one qism and six shiakhas: King Mariout, El Hawareya, Naga El Omda Khalil, Naga El Omda Hindawi, El Wadi and Palestine, with some sixty villages, nagaas, ezbas and streets between them, among them old El Nasiriya and Bangar El Sokkar villages 1 to 7.1

The district headquarters at the entrance of old El Nasiriya and its technology citizen service centre take residents’ requests; call the district on 03 4518000 to confirm before you visit. Within the district are Abu Mena, on the World Heritage List, the Monastery of Saint Mina, the ruins of Marea on Lake Mariout, and Borg El Arab Stadium.

The limestone ruins of Abu Mena spreading across the desert, with two white towers and distant buildings on the horizon under a clear sky
Abu Mena, inside the district

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The district in numbers

  • 6

    Shiakhas

  • 1

    Administrative section

  • 11

    Years since the district was created (2015)

The qism and shiakhas as in the district’s boundary document; the year it was created from prime minister’s decree 312 of 201513

The district at a glance

Our vision for clearer services, protected heritage and a district that welcomes residents and visitors.

A safe, orderly district where every resident, in town and village alike, gets their service easily and clearly, and which keeps its farmland and the antiquities of Abu Mena and Marea.
Our vision

The qism and its shiakhas

One qism, El Amreya II, holding six shiakhas, each with the villages, nagaas, ezbas and streets the district’s page on the governorate portal lists.

  • El Amreya II

    ثان العامرية

    Its six shiakhas: King Mariout, El Hawareya, Naga El Omda Khalil, Naga El Omda Hindawi, El Wadi, Palestine1

    Population, estimate for 20172
    278,968
  • King Mariout

    كينج مريوط

    El Heba Street, Omar El Mokhtar Street, Nagaa El Matarid (north and south), Nagaa Abu El Hol, El Rashidi Street, Nagaa Yadem, old El King Street, Nagaa Waer, Maarouf Street, El Sayed Orabi Street, El Nour Mosque Street, El Kafouri Street, Seven Up Street, El Kablat Street, new El King Street north of the railway, the Presidential Rest House Street, Dr Diodar Street, Nour El Islam Mosque Street, El Salam West4

  • El Hawareya

    الهوارية

    the airport road and the Obeida family’s area, Nagaa Habboun (north and south), Nagaa Abu Qarqoura, El Hawareya (south and north)4

  • Naga El Omda Khalil

    نجع العمدة خليل

    Nagaa El Saedi, old El Nasiriya, the Nasiriya housing, Nagaa Raslan (north and south), Ezbet Ibrahim Saleh, Ezbet Kahla, Abu Bseisa, Nagaa Hafiz4

  • Naga El Omda Hindawi

    نجع العمدة هنداوي

    the villages of Ahmed Orabi, Sheikh Mustafa Ismail, El Maabad, Mahmoud Shaltout, Othman Ibn Affan, Sitta Dawagen, Abdel Rahman Basarek 58, El Saeda, Aleppo, El Horreya, El Galaa, Abu Masoud, Khaled Ibn El Walid, 59, El Gazayer and Abu Bseisa4

    The district’s Map page also lists Sheikh Mustafa Ismail village as a seventh shiakha; the 2016 boundary document has six.

  • El Wadi

    الوادي

    Ezbet Ard El Saayda, El Wadi, Ezbet Mansour4

  • Palestine

    فلسطين

    Nagaa Abu Siam, the villages of Baghdad, Basra, Mustafa Kamel, Abu Bakr El Seddiq, Iraq and Yemen, Bangar El Sokkar villages 1 to 7, Nagaa Kateb, Palestine village, Nagaa Rahim4

    The higher-numbered Bangar El Sokkar villages are served by Borg El Arab; road 16 of Bangar El Sokkar is the line between the qism and the Borg El Arab police qism.

The population figure is CAPMAS’s estimate for the whole qism; no figure is published per shiakha. The map’s lines are approximate: CAPMAS’s data draws three shapes for the six shiakhas, King Mariout, El Hawareya, and a “Mariout sector” that holds the other four.

Timeline

  1. The martyr Menas

    AD 296

    Menas of Alexandria died a martyr in AD 296; over his tomb grew the early Christian holy city of Abu Mena, with its church, basilicas, monasteries, houses and workshops.

  2. The pilgrimage city

    5th to 7th century AD

    Abu Mena, as UNESCO describes it, shows the growth of an early Christian pilgrimage centre from the 5th to the 7th century AD. On the south shore of Lake Mariout, Marea was an ancient port, with a basilica from the 5th century.

  3. Abu Mena found

    1905

    The German archaeologist Kaufmann found the site of Abu Mena in 1905.

  4. The Monastery of Saint Mina

    1959

    Pope Kyrillos VI laid the foundation stone of the Monastery of Saint Mina at Mariout on 27 November 1959, beside the ancient site of Abu Mena.

  5. World Heritage

    1979

    UNESCO inscribed Abu Mena on the World Heritage List in 1979, and on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 2001.

  6. The El Amreya II police qism

    2007

    Interior Minister’s decision 966 of 2007 created the El Amreya II police qism, whose limits later became the district’s. Borg El Arab Stadium opened the same year.

  7. A new district

    2015

    Prime minister’s decree 312 of 2015 (14 February 2015) created El Amreya II District out of El Amreya District, which was renamed El Amreya I.

  8. The shiakhas’ boundaries

    2016

    In January 2016 Alexandria Governorate published El Amreya II District’s document: its qism, its six shiakhas and the limits of each, among them the newly created El Wadi and Palestine.

  9. Off the danger list

    2025

    In July 2025 Abu Mena was removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger.

Our priorities

Four commitments that govern the district’s day-to-day decisions.

  1. Automated, understandable service

    Residents should know the documents their service needs before they visit the technology centre, and find reconciliation files, licences and complaints handled in one place.

  2. Licensed shops

    Following up shops and workshops on the desert road, the Kafouri road, in El Nasiriya and in the villages, and warning unlicensed ones to put their papers in order.

  3. Protected land

    Stopping unlicensed building and encroachments on farmland and state land before they are finished, in King Mariout, El Hawareya and the villages.

  4. Villages served

    Following up drinking water, road paving and medical and cultural convoys in the villages and nagaas, and receiving residents’ complaints at the district headquarters.