1. Medieval
Alexandria (Ar. al-Iskandariyya), on the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the western edge of the Nile Delta, is the principal port city of Egypt and was the capital until the Arab conquest, when it was replaced by Fustat. There was a substantial Jewish community in the city from the third century B.C.E. (According to Josephus, Jews already settled there at the time of Alexander's founding of the city.) Alexandria became the principal center of Hellenistic Jewish culture in Antiquity. It was…