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Suez

Port at the Red Sea terminus of the Suez Canal, 120 km/75 mi east of Cairo, Egypt; population (1996) 417,600, (2007 calc) 506,300. Industries include oil refining and the manufacture of fertilizers. Port Ibrahim, 3 km/1.8 mi south of Suez, lies at the entrance to the canal. It was reconstructed in 1979 after the Arab-Israeli Wars.



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"I need not tell you, sir," said Ned Land, "that the Red Sea is as much closed as the Gulf, as the Isthmus of Suez is not yet cut; and, if it was, a boat as mysterious as ours would not risk itself in a canal cut with sluices.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
Suez lies in the bottom of the Gulf, three leagues from Toro, once a place of note, now reduced, under the Turks, to an inconsiderable village, where the miserable inhabitants are forced to fetch water at three leagues' distance.
A Voyage to Abyssinia by Lobo, Father View in context
From London to Suez via Mont Cenis and Brindisi, by rail and steamboats .
Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context
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