Alexandria has 3.8 million people. It is the main port of Egypt. It has twoairports and three bigstadia: Alexandria stadium, Harras el hadoud stadium and Borg el-Arab stadium in the Borg el-Arab industrial city.
It was a wealthy city in its heyday, and remained the main way Egyptian grain went by sea toAncient Rome. Rome depended greatly on Egyptian grain. Much of Alexandria sank below the sea in the4th century. Some of her history is in the Mediterranean.
After theMuslim conquest of Egypt in 641 AD, they did not want to have their capital at Alexandria, because it was too vulnerable to naval raids. They made a new capital, much farther upriver, on the east side of theNile, and called itFustat. Alexandria became less important.
