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Abdeen Palace
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<p>Abdeen District is the home of Abdeen Palace , a 19th-century <a href="/facts/Cairo/dXjj60ar">Cairo</a> <a href="/facts/Palace/vdve3MUs">palace</a> built by <a href="/facts/Isma%2527il_Pasha_of_Egypt/aM4Y6lsf">Khedive Ismail</a> and served as the Egyptian royal household's primary official residence from 1874 until the <a href="/facts/1952_Egyptian_revolution/fEUwQM9l">July Revolution</a> in 1952. Since then it has been one of the <a href="/facts/President_of_Egypt/01XuyR6y">presidential</a> palaces. The palace is centered in its eponymous district, administratively part of the Western Area of Cairo, and part of the <a href="/facts/Downtown_Cairo/VJDoYKvy">Khedival Cairo</a> Area of Value to the west of <a href="/facts/Islamic_Cairo/t3lhEt7N">Historic Cairo</a>. </p>