Suez

Suez (Arabic: ?????? ) is a port town (population ca. 460,000) in Egypt, located on the Gulf of Suez, near the mouth of the Suez Canal. The town was utterly destroyed and deserted following the Second Arab-Israeli War in 1967. It was rebuilt after the reopening of the canal in 1975.

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• Suez Crisis
• Suez Group http://www.suez.com/

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Port: A port is a facility at the edge of an ocean, river, or lake for receiving ships and transferring cargo and persons to them. Ports have specially-designed equipment to help in the loading and unloading of these vessels. Cranes and refrigerated storage may be provided by private interests or public...

Gulf of Suez: The northern end of the Red Sea is bifurcated by the Sinai Peninsula, creating the Gulf of Suez (Arabic: Khalij as Suways) in the west and the Gulf of Aqaba to the east. The Gulf of Suez is a relatively young rift basin, dating back 40 million years. http://geoinfo.amu.edu.pl/wpk/geos/GEO_2/GEO_PLA...

Suez related Images and Photos (experimental)

Suez 1938	The Suez Canal 1864	Map of the Suez Canal c.1870	Passport to Suez
Building the Suez Canal	Wyld's Official Map of the Suez Maritime Canal 1869