Rosetta (Rasheed)

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Rosetta or Rashid is a port city in El Beheira Governorate on the Mediterranean Coast in Egypt . Distinctively , Rasheed is distinguished by the abundance of the Islamic monuments in it to the extent that it is planed to make of it an open museum for Islamic art . Rosetta occupied the position of Alexandria being the major port Egypt after the Ottoman conquest in the 16th century . Notwithstanding , it began to decline against Alexandria since the 2nd half of the 19th century .
In 1799 , a French soldier found the famous Rosetta Stone that later helped Champollion resolve the ideograms of the Ancient Egyptian language .
In 1807 , the army of Mohamed Ali and the people of Rosetta defeated the English army that tried to occupy Egypt .
Within its limits , the city comprises 22 monumental residences , 12 mosques , mills , castles and public baths , the majority of which date back to the Ottoman Era . Near Rosetta , there are some cemeteries and archeological sites that date back to the Greco-Roman Period such as: Tarbiyat El-Add , Tarbiyat El-Alayem , Abu Mandour and Tell Dibi .