Hurghada city

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Hurghada gained its name from the Algrdq tree, which grows in abundance in this region. Fishermen come from the Arabian Peninsula and meet at the tree Algrkd. The confluence hunters after the completion of fishing when a tree Algrkd with the surge. There was at that time a continuous frequency for a particular phrase, "When we meet Algrkd", including the recently derived the name of Hurghada. Was the construction of recreational break in the position of this tree to King Farouk. After nationalization in the era of President Gamal Abdel Nasser has become the club this building armed forces for water sports, and is now signed to the Tourist Information Center in the city.
The city's history is very short, there are no raised or temples or mention of this city in ancient Egyptian history. Hurghada was a meeting place for hunters coming from the Arabian Peninsula tribes Alaghina and Rashaida and Almaazh, and the city at that time were not only a group of houses was inhabited by primitive nomads, stationed mainly in the area of ​​the scaffold. The work of the region's population in the fishing and dried, and pearling.
Oil was discovered in the area in 1913, and began economic production for export in Hurghada wells in 1921 was Aabar oils Anglo-Egyptian Ltd. (a subsidiary of Shell International), one of the first companies that started in the production of oil in this region. Output reached Ghurdaqa of petroleum from the date of discovery and to 1996 (41.448 million barrels). With the decline in production was largely the transfer of large number of workers to Ras Gharib and the company's fields in the Sinai, such as Ras Sudr, leaving only a limited number of workers until 1954 numbered no more than 40 workers. With lower oil production adopted Hurghada services as the capital of the province.


Sheraton Hurghada opened in 1963
Tourism has remained in this period individually for lovers of the sea. Experienced a break of King Farouk lot of visits from the King who is constantly hunting trips, and after the revolution turned into a break for Mushir Abdul Hakim Amer, who purchased the seven fishing boats were distributed to fishermen has been the establishment of an association of fishermen been providing services to them and control the sale of fish from fishermen Company fisheries. Opened Sheraton Hotel Hurghada in 1963 -klv million pounds Tgariba- by the company Sheraton Global was the turning point of oil production to tourism Vsdor Ministerial Decree No. 70 of 1964 as the province of the Red Sea province of tourist but remained Hurghada in reliance on fishing and service delivery center management of the county and its departments have been established cost factory Serbx fish and fish marketing company and tourism remained limited at the Sheraton hotel and the Mermaid.
The early eighties saw a huge boom in the field of Alsیahh.aad Working Youssef Afifi first launched development projects the city of Hurghada to be converted into a tourist town.
Geography
Hurghada is located on the western shore of the Red Sea on the longitude 48 '33 ° east and latitude 15' 27 ° north, follow administratively to the Red Sea Governorate, which is the capital of the province. It is bordered to the north city of Ras Gharib, a distance of 143 km, and south of the city of Safaga distance of 61 km, and overlooking the Red Sea coast from the east, and west of the Red Sea mountains directly. Hurghada covers an area of ​​40 km from the coastline of the Red Sea.
Rose Wind
Ras Gharib Rose Wind
The Red Sea, the Red Sea mountains
Hurghada

Safaga 

And the city of Hurghada is the fourth of the bigger cities in terms of area after Ras Gharib, Safaga and short, and has an area of ​​460.5 square kilometers. Stretching urban cluster of the city on the coastal road parallel to the coast of the Red Sea in a long distance is estimated to 23 km, while the extension of no more than 3.6 km from the inside.
Extends the ancient city of Hurghada (Dahar) in a linear, confined between Hilltin Geratin, one in the east of the old city and the coast, and the other in the west. Therefore, located in the city of Hurghada coastal plain breadth varies from one region to another, and varies in width from 8 to 35 km. And shows that the multiplicity of patterns of the urban fabric of the city of Hurghada, is concentrated fabric automatic and networking in the nucleus of the city, where random construction, which is characterized by buildings of poor and middle-coherent, mostly, gaze on a tight and Winding roads and streets that varies in width from 3 to 6 meters approx. The fabric networking and bar regulator predominates in Urban Extensions developed.

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Street vendors paint a bad image to the city of Hurghada, on the seventh day.
"The city of Hurghada." General Authority for Information. Briefed him on 19 July 2013.