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El-Thawra Street

Named El-Thawra, 'the Revolution', in honour of the July 1952 movement that ended the monarchy.

Many older colonial-era street names were replaced after 1952 with revolutionary terms. El-Thawra is among the most direct, naming the event itself.

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