The Abbassia Pluvial was an extended wet and rainy period in the climate history of North Africa. It began c. 120,000 years before the present (ybp), lasted approximately 30,000 years, and ended c. 90,000 ybp. The Abbassia Pluvial spanned the end of the Lower Paleolithic and the start of the Middle Paleolithic eras — an interval that is also sometimes identified as the Achulean (250–90 kybp). As with the subsequent Mousterian Pluvial, the Abbassia was brought about by global climate changes associated with the ice ages and interglacials of the Pleistocene Epoch.

As with the Mousterian Pluvial that followed (c. 50–30 kybp), the Abbassia Pluvial brought wet and fertile conditions to what is now the Sahara Desert, which bloomed with lush vegetation fed by lakes, swamps, and river systems, many of which later disappeared in the drier climate that followed the pluvial. African wiIdllife now associated with the grasslands and woodlands south of the Sahara penetrated the entire North African region during the Abbassia Pluvial.

Abbassia (Arabic: العباسية‎) is a neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt. It contains the seat of Coptic Orthodox Church.

During the continued 2012 protests of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, Abbassia has been the seen of confrontation between protesters, and armed gangs, whom numerous opposition sources have alleged to be operating on the orders of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces under Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the body of officers from the Egyptian military that have been ruling Egypt since the resignation of former President Hosni Mubarak on 11th February 2011.

In the Second World War, during which Egypt was the seen of heavy fighting, the United Kingdom located its Royal Armoured Corps School in Abbassia.