Our grannies - the Alexandrian women The massive female emigration from the Goriška region to Egypt in the second half of the 19th century started due to the fact that during the construction of the Suez Canal, and still more so after its opening in the year 1869, the number of European entrepreneurs..
Daša Koprivec, Master of ethnology and Cultural sociologist and employee of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum, has collaborated as member of the Management Committee with the Society for the Preservation of the Cultural Heritage of the Alexandrian Women Prvačina since its foundation in November 2005. In her report she describes the migrations of the children of the Alexandrian women from the 1930s..