{"id":272546,"date":"2020-05-29T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/?p=272546"},"modified":"2022-06-02T10:02:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T00:02:06","slug":"the-egyptian-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/%d8%ac%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%af%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%8a%d8%ac%d9%8a%d8%a8%d8%b4%d9%8a%d9%86-%d8%ac%d8%a7%d8%b2%d9%8a%d8%aa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Egyptian Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">It is a famous Egyptian newspaper and is considered the oldest English-language newspaper in the Middle East, as its first issue was published on January 26, 1880, and it continues to this day. Its name is clear and needs little explanation: &quot;Egyptian&quot; means &quot;Egyptian,&quot; and &quot;Gazette&quot; usually means &quot;newspaper&quot; or &quot;official periodical.&quot; However, the origin of the word may not be known to many, even among the journalists who work for this venerable newspaper. <img decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude42\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/ta5\/1.5\/16\/1f642.png\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"> Few people today know that the word \u201cgazzetta\u201d is originally the name of a seventeenth-century coin minted in Venice. The copper coin was of the 2 \u201csoldi\u201d denomination and was called \u201cgazzetta\u201d, which in turn is derived from the Latin word \u201cgaza\u201d, meaning \u201ctreasure\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/100085817_1747570448734316_2335357461831090176_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-272548\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">The coin is approximately 2.5 cm in diameter. One side features the Venetian lion emblem surrounded by the letters San Marco Ven II, while the reverse bears the words &quot;O Armata et Morea \u2013 Dalma et Alban.&quot; The Venetian government began issuing the new currency as part of its efforts to improve services for the people. Shortly thereafter, it launched a new official gazette containing all important decrees, which was sold (no doubt, dear reader, you anticipated this!) for the price of one &quot;gazetta.&quot; From that day forward, the name of the gazette became synonymous with the currency, to the point that today &quot;gazetta&quot; or &quot;gazette&quot; is often used interchangeably with &quot;newspaper&quot; in many parts of the Western world!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">Moheb Rizkalla<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"272549\" src=\"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/92345083_1747570425400985_3561631312726982656_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-272549\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"272551\" src=\"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/100326364_1747570385400989_5751543044268621824_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-272551\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"272555\" src=\"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/100753093_1747570462067648_5745911882582065152_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-272555\"><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/100053203_1747570528734308_8717884665635012608_o-Small.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-272556\"><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a famous Egyptian newspaper and is considered the oldest English-language newspaper in the Middle East, as its first issue was published on January 26, 1880, and it continues to this day. Its name is clear and needs little explanation: &quot;Egyptian&quot; means &quot;Egyptian,&quot; and &quot;Gazette&quot; usually means &quot;newspaper&quot; or &quot;official periodical.&quot; However, the origin of the word may not be known to many, even journalists who work there.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,364],"tags":[1267,412,303,304],"class_list":["post-272546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coins","category-historical","tag-egyptian-gazzette","tag-412","tag-303","tag-304"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}