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History |
- It was one of the royal botanical gardens, with various imported rare species of the most beautiful plants and cactus all over the world.
- Khedive Ismail (1863-1879), the ruler of Egypt, was the first to think of opening the zoo on the occasion of the inauguration of the Suez Canal in 1869 but he chould not do so for the lack of enough time.
- On first of March, 1891, the Zoo at Giza was opened for the public. |