Heliopolis
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Placenames
- Heliopolis (ancient)Heliopolis (ancient)Heliopolis was one of the oldest cities of ancient Egypt, the capital of the 13th Lower Egyptian nome that was located five miles east of the Nile to the north of the apex of the Nile Delta...
, the ancient city in Egypt - Heliopolis (Cairo suburb)Heliopolis (Cairo Suburb)Modern Heliopolis is a district in Cairo, Egypt. The city was established in 1905 by the Heliopolis Oasis Company, headed by the Belgian industrialist Édouard Louis Joseph, Baron Empain, as well as Boghos Nubar, son of the Egyptian Prime Minister Nubar Pasha.-History:The Baron Empain, a well known...
, a suburb in modern Cairo, Egypt - Heliopolis of Phoenicia, modern Baalbek, Lebanon
- IlioupoliIlioupoliIlioupoli is a suburb in the south-southeastern part of metropolitan Athens, Greece.The area was made up of farmlands to the west and the central part and the rocky areas of the Hymettus to its east. Mixed farming was common in the western part. Much of the agricultural production that time was...
or Ilioupolis, meaning "Heliopolis" in Modern Greek, a southeastern suburb of Athens, Greece - HeliópolisHeliópolisHeliopolis is a district town in the district of Sacomã, in the southeast area of São Paulo, Brazil. Composed of fourteen plots, it has about 100,000 inhabitants in an area of almost one million square meters. This makes it the largest slum population in the city, but the second in area behind...
, the largest favela of São Paulo City, Brazil - Heliópolis, BrazilHeliópolis, BrazilHeliópolis is a town and municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil.-References:...
, a town and municipality in Bahia, Brazil - Héliopolis, AlgeriaHéliopolis, AlgeriaHéliopolis, Algeria is a town and commune in Guelma Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 22,605.-References:...
, a town and commune in Guelma Province, Algeria - Héliopolis, a town in France situated on the Île du LevantÎle du LevantÎle du Levant , sometimes referred to as Le Levant, is a Mediterranean French island off the coast of the Riviera, near Toulon. It is one of the three that constitute the Îles d'Hyères of France. The island is 8 km long, 2 km wide, and located in the Gulf of Lion...
Fictional places
- Heliopolis, a fictitious territory/colony in the science fiction anime series Gundam Seed (see Cosmic Era locations)
- Heliopolis (Marvel Comics)Heliopolis (Marvel Comics)Heliopolis is a fictional location in the Marvel Universe. It first appeared in Thor #240 , and was created by Roy Thomas and Sal Buscema....
, a fictitious location in Marvel Comics - Heliopolis, a fictitious planet in the sci-fi television series Stargate SG-1 (see The Torment of Tantalus)
Novels
- Heliopolis (novel)Heliopolis (novel)Heliopolis is an utopistic or dystopian novel by Ernst Jünger published in 1949. In the fictional city of Heliopolis the henchmen of a Proconsul and a Landvogt fight each other. Commander Lucius de Geer belongs to the staff of the Proconsul, but he stands more and more aloof these inner fights....
, a dystopian novel by Ernst Jünger - Heliopolis (2009 novel)Heliopolis (2009 novel)Heliopolis is a 2009 novel by the British author James Scudamore. It is set in the city and surrounding areas of contemporary São Paulo, Brazil, and follows the story of a young, favela-born man, Ludo dos Santos...
, a fiction novel by James Scudamore set in contemporary São Paulo, Brazil
Music
- Heliopolis (album)Heliopolis (album)Heliopolis is a second album of Sweden based Greek musician Jannis Tzikas. The album was officially released in 2006.-Track listing:# Unfiltered # Speech Module # Reflected...
, a psychedelic trance album released by Swedish artist Filteria - "Heliopolis", a song off the Morning DanceMorning DanceMorning Dance is Spyro Gyra's most commercially successful album, released in the summer of 1979. The title cut became a major hit also in the summer of 1979.-Track listing and personnel:...
album by Spyro GyraSpyro GyraSpyro Gyra is an American jazz fusion band that was originally formed in the mid-1970s in Buffalo, New York, USA. With over 25 albums released and 10 million copies sold, they are among the most prolific as well as commercially successful groups of the genre... - "Heliopolis", a song off the Reign of Light album by SamaelSamael (band)Samael is a industrial black metal band formed in 1987 in Sion, Switzerland.-Biography:Although much of their music from the mid-1990s onwards has incorporated electronic sounds which would best define their genre as industrial metal, they are an early 2nd Wave black metal band and an innovator for...
- "Heliopolis", a song off the Maya album by Banco de GaiaBanco de GaiaBanco de Gaia is an electronic music band from England, formed in 1989 by Toby Marks .The music of Banco de Gaia is best categorized as ambient dub, but Marks works to cross genres, often using Arabic and Middle Eastern samples against a bass heavy reggae, rock, or trance rhythm to produce deeply...
- "Heliopolis by Night", a song off the Young ForeverYoung ForeverYoung Forever is the debut album from Scottish indie band Aberfeldy. It was recorded in mono using one microphone and produced by Jim Sutherland.-Track listing:# "A Friend Like You"# "Slow Me Down"# "Love Is An Arrow"# "Tie One On"# "Summer's Gone"...
album by Scottish indy band AberfeldyAberfeldy (band)Aberfeldy are a band formed by the singer-songwriter Riley Briggs in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2002. The band is named after the Scottish town.-History:... - "Heliopolis", a song and E.P. by Forthcoming Fire
- "Heliopolis", a song by Franz SchubertFranz SchubertFranz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
- "Heliopolis", a song off the Phoenix (2009) album by AgathodaimonAgathodaimon (band)Agathodaimon is a gothic/melodic black metal band from Mainz, Germany.-Biography:The band began in September 1995, when guitarist Sathonys and drummer Matthias got together to assemble a dominant death metal band with harmonic arrangements . They put adverts in several music magazines in the hopes...
Others
- Heliopolis styleHeliopolis styleHeliopolis style is an early 20th century architectural style developed in the new suburb of Heliopolis in eastern Cairo, Egypt. The Belgian Cairo Electric Railways and Heliopolis Oases Company, responsible for planning and developing the new suburb, created the new style to implement an exclusive...
, the architectural style of the modern Heliopolis Cairo suburb - Heliopolis (film)Heliopolis (film)Heliopolis is a 2009 Egyptian independent musical documentary film by Ahmad Abdalla that tells the story of a group of young people during a winter day in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis...
, a 2009 Egyptian independent musical docudrama film by Ahmad Abdalla - Heliopolis (horse)Heliopolis (horse)Heliopolis was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and Champion sire bred and raced by Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby. He was raced from age two to four and then exported during World War II to the Coldstream Stud of E. Dale Shaffer in Lexington, Kentucky and arrived at the port of New York on...
, a British Thoroughbred racehorse