Mansoura Faculty of Medicine:

• Faculty of Medicine is the first nucleus of the University of Mansoura .
• In 1962 it was established as a Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura, Cairo University, and was based in the town of Mansura .
• oversaw the establishment of the college and took the administration at the time the late Prof.Dr. / Ibrahim Abonaga.
• The study began in the college in the academic year 62/1963 in one of the buildings of Mansoura secondary school for boys.
• A ministerial decision was issued in 67/1968 transferring the subordination of Mansoura general hospital to become a university hospital from the year 68/1969 .
• The study moved to the current building of Faculty of Medicine in Mansoura in 1968 and the number of students at the start of the study in the academic year 1962/63 was 157 students.
• The first class graduated from college in the academic year 67/1968 and the number of graduates was 64 doctors, 30 doctors of them are currently holding a Professor degree.

Mansoura University:

The study began in Faculty of Medicine in 1962 as a branch of Cairo University and the University of East Delta was established in 1972 was amended to designate Mansoura University in 1973, the university is the sixth established between the eighteen universities in Egypt.

The campus area occupies an area of approximately 300 acres on the south-west of the city of Mansoura. The university includes colleges of Medicine - Dentistry - Pharmacy - engineering - agriculture - trade - rights - Science - Education - Computer and information - nursing - veterinary medicine - physical education units and some public services such as administration to care for students and university facilities for student housing. most of the units of nature Serving the private university and the community, in addition to the space occupied by the university colleges outside the university campus as college of Arts, which lies in Ahmed Maher Street, College of Education quality Mansoura and its branches in the cities of Meet Ghamr and Meniet Elnasr as well as colleges built in Damietta such as Science, Education and quality education and the branch of the Faculty of Commerce and Seminar classes for the Colleges of Agriculture and Arts and Physical Education and the College of Applied Arts.

There is a huge complex for student services on campus where many social and cultural activities take place throughout the year. There is also a newly established kitchen and a modern hospital serving all the university members and students.

The university had the privilege of hosting the 7th Universities' youth week in Egypt, which took place during the period from 5-10 February – 2005 which was honored by the presence of Mr. President / Mohamed Hosni Mubarak - President of the Republic-. The total cost of projects created for this event reached about one hundred and fifty million pounds.

Mansoura University in figures for the year 2008/2009:

- University colleges: 27 Colleges.
- Number of hospitals and medical centers:
- 9 hospitals and medical centers.
- University libraries: 35 libraries comprising 389,480 books title.
- University faculty members: 5527 Member of the Board of Education.
- The number of university students: 115,929
- The number of post-graduate students: 6238

Mansoura City:

El Mansoura (al-mansūrah) is a city in Egypt, with a population of 420,000. It is the capital of the Dakahlia Governorate.
History:
Mansoura means 'The Victorious (feminine)'. The city is named after the Egyptian victory in the battle of Mansoura over Louis IX of France during the Seventh Crusade.

Mansoura lies on the east bank of the Damietta branch of the Nile, in the Delta region. Mansoura is about 120 km northeast of Cairo. Across from the city, on the opposite bank of the Nile , is the town of Talkha. Mansoura and Talkha form together a metropolitan city.

Mansoura was established in 1219 by Saladin's brother, Abu-Bakr Malik Al-Adil I (also known as Saphadin) of the Ayyubid dynasty. Its original name was Gezerit Elward (" Island of Roses ") but after the Egyptians defeated the Crusaders during the Seventh Crusade, it was named Mansoura ("The Victorious").

In the Seventh Crusade, the Capetians were defeated and put to flight; between fifteen and thirty thousand of their men fell on the battlefield. Louis IX of France was captured in the main Battle of Mansoura, and became confined in the house of Ibrahim ­ben Lokman, secretary of the sultan, and under the guard of the eunuch Sobih. The king's brother was emprisoned in the same house. The sultan provided for their sustenance. The house of Ibrahim ­ben Lokman in now the only museum in Mansoura. It is open to the public and houses articles that used to belong to the French monarch, including his personal thirteenth century toilet.

The Mansura Air Battle on October 14, 1973 occurred during the Yom Kippur War. Israeli Air Force fighters attacking Egyptian air bases were intercepted by the Egyptian Air Force. On that day, 160 jet fighters, most belonging to Israel , battled for 53 minutes over the Nile Delta town of Al-Mansoura . Despite the numerical and qualitative superiority of the Israeli warplanes, 18 Israeli planes were downed. The rest retreated. Egypt announced the loss of six planes, only three of which fell to Israeli fire. The Egyptian government subsequently changed the country’s "Air Force Day" from November 2 to October 14, to commemorate the Mansoura Air Battle.
Culture

The Egyptian Arabic dialect spoken by Mansoura's population is a northern Egyptian Arabic dialect, with noticeable influences from the city's surrounding rural villages, each of which has contributed to the city's population over the years. There are some similarities to Alexandrian Egyptian Arabic in some aspects of pronunciation.

Mansoura National Museum used to be Dar Ibn Lockman, the house where Louis IX was imprisoned in 1250 during the Seventh Crusade. Displayed in the museum are the suits of mail and swords of the crusaders, as well as a collection of maps. Huge paintings depict the Battle of Mansoura.

The Mansoura branch of the National Library was recently inaugurated as the Mansoura Mubarak Library.

Mansoura is famous for its architectural style, especially the Shinnawi Palace (after Mohamed Bek El-Shinnawi, a member of the Wafd Party). It was built by an Italian architect in 1928. The mosque of El-Saleh Ayoub El-Kebir is one of the most important in Mansoura. It was built by a loyal servant of the Sultan and is located in Al-Sagha Street that separates "Old Mansoura" from the modern city.

Like Cairo and Alexandria, Mansoura was home to a flourishing Greek community until the Nasserite era, when many were forced to leave. Many of the older and best established shops and businesses around the city still bear their original Greek names. The first English school in the city was established on the site of the old Greek school in the Toriel area, one of the traditionally relatively affluent residential districts of the city.

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