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    The Baron Empain Palace (Arabic: قصر البارون إمبان, "Qasr el Baron Emban"), also known as Le Palais Hindou (lit. 'The Hindu Palace'), is a distinctive...
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    Édouard Louis Joseph, 1st Baron Empain (20 September 1852 – 22 July 1929), was a wealthy Walloon Belgian engineer, entrepreneur, financier and industrialist...
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    Empain, 1st Baron Empain (1852-1929) Jean Empain, 2nd Baron Empain (1902-1946) Édouard-Jean Empain, 3rd Baron Empain (1937-2018) Jean Francois Empain...
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    structures that made a more subtle segregation in the city possible. Baron Empain's palace was designed by Alexandre Marcel, a French architect and a member...
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    Michel Polak, the villa was commissioned by Baron Louis Empain, son of the industrialist Édouard Empain. It subsequently served as offices and an embassy...
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  • Abdeen Palace Al-Gawhara Palace Amir Alin Aq Palace Amir Taz Palace Baron Empain Palace Bayt al-Kritliyya (Gayer-Anderson Museum) Bayt Al-Razzaz palace Bayt...
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  • Museum) 1911 Baron Empain Palace, Heliopolis, Cairo 1910 Heliopolis Palace, Heliopolis, Cairo 1915 Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil palace (now a museum) 1921...
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  • Tahra palace, El-Zayton 1901 The Palace of Saad Zaghloul Pasha (Beit El-Omma Museum) 1908 Prince Youssef Kamal Palace in Nag Hammadi. 1911 Baron Empain palace...
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    the Heliopolis Oasis Company headed by the Belgian industrialist Édouard Empain and his Egyptian counterpart Boghos Nubar, built a suburb called Heliopolis...
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    current building was built in 1913 on the request of Baron François Empain [nl]. Baron Empain Palace (1911) in Cairo, Egypt Media related to Castle of Enghien...
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    Mathurins no. 53), Paris, unknown architect, c.1910 Indian inspiration - Baron Empain Palace, Heliopolis, Egypt, by Alexandre Marcel, 1911 Islamic inspiration:...
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    Leopold II grand hall of the Heliopolis Palace Hotel, Heliopolis, Cairo, 1910 Baron Empain Palace (Qasr Al Baron), Heliopolis, Cairo, completed 1911 Latin...
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  • underneath Zvíkov.[excessive citations] Baron Empain Palace: Tourists have reportedly heard voices throughout the palace late at night. Guards and police have...
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    Neo-Islamic/Neo-Mamluk style designed by Ernest Jaspar, while Baron Empain's own palace, completed in 1911 by Alexandre Marcel, is a flamboyant imitation...
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    Abdeen Palace Al-Gawhara Palace Amir Alin Aq Palace Amir Taz Palace Baron Empain Palace Beshtak Palace Dubara Palace Gezirah Palace Heliopolis Palace Khairy...
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  • December, 2022 in Cairo, Egypt. The official venue was in front of the Baron Empain Palace. Both men's and women's national teams of Egypt qualified for the...
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    Egyptian Museum, and renovate other historical buildings such as the Baron Empain Palace, Graeco-Roman Museum and Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue. He also organizes...
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  • Palace Hotel opened. Heliopolis Sporting Club founded. 1905 – Shimon Bar Yochai Synagogue established 1911 Zamalek Sporting Club formed. Baron Empain...
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    Brussels, on the Boulevard Général Jacques/Generaal Jacqueslaan, the Villa Empain (1930–1934) on the Avenue Franklin Roosevelt/Franklin Rooseveltlaan, and...
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    I. Her principal residence was her palace in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis, opposite the famous Villa Baron Empain. Historian Samir Raafat describes the...
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  • and was also taken hostage when he tried to secure her release. Baron Édouard-Jean Empain: Industrialist who was kidnapped for ransom. His captors cut off...
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    experience and for that, he became one of the few advisors of Édouard Empain, Baron Empain during the foundation of the Heliopolis suburb. Also, he was one of the...
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    March: The Vlaamsch Verbond voor Brussel [nl] is established. 1934 The Villa Empain is built. The Citroën Garage is built. 22 February: The funeral of King...
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  • According to Inspector Jean-Claude Murat in the documentary L'Enlèvement du baron Empain - « Faites entrer l'accusé » (2005). "Love leads to French gangster's...
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  • the Palace of Khedive Abbas II, as well as many friendships with senior officials of Egyptian society. He was also the private lawyer for Baron Empain and...
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    Notable people include Major General Baron Édouard Empain, Count Charles John d'Oultremont, and Lieutenant General Baron Albert du Roy de Blicquy. In Commonwealth...
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    (née Virginia Cherrill, previously Grant) on 30 July 1937 Rozell Empain, Baroness Empain (née Rozell Rowland) on 4 November 1937 Barbara Petty-Fitzmaurice...
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  • officials of Egyptian society. He was also the private lawyer for both Baron Empain and the Cairo Tramways Company. On 5 January 1911 the club was established...
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    competed, and The Compagnie Generale de Traction, owned by the Belgian Baron Édouard Empain, won the contract; this company was then immediately reorganized...
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    was Édouard Empain, nicknamed the "Tramway King", whose company ran infrastructure projects across Europe, Asia and South America. Empain's projects included...
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