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    The Suez Canal (Arabic: قَنَاةُ ٱلسُّوَيْسِ, Qanāt as-Suwais) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red...
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    The Suez Company or Suez Canal Company, full initial name Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez (Universal Company of the Maritime Canal of Suez)...
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    control of the Suez Canal, which Nasser had earlier nationalised by transferring administrative control from the foreign-owned Suez Canal Company to Egypt's...
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    Comte de Lesseps GCSI (French: [də lesɛps]; 19 November 1805 – 7 December 1894) was a French diplomat and later developer of the Suez Canal, which in...
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    The Raid on the Suez Canal, also known as Actions on the Suez Canal, took place between 26 January and 4 February 1915 when a German-led Ottoman Army...
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    Gulf of Suez on the Red Sea, near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal, and is the capital of the Suez Governorate. It has three ports: the Suez Port...
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  • Suez Canal University is an Egyptian public university serving the Suez Canal region. Its faculties are located in the three governorates of the Suez...
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    of Suez on the Red Sea at southern entrance of the Suez Canal, serving the canal and the city of Suez. It is owned and operated by the Ministry of Transport's...
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    The closure of the Suez Canal from November 1956 to April 1957 was caused by the Second Arab–Israeli war also known as the Suez Crisis in 1956. On 26 July...
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    The Canal of the Pharaohs, also called the Ancient Suez Canal or Necho's Canal, is the forerunner of the Suez Canal, constructed in ancient times and...
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  • also refer to: Suez Canal Authority, which owns and maintains the Suez Canal Suez Canal Bridge, which crosses the Suez Canal Suez Canal Company, the French...
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    one of the founders of Saint-Simonianism. He was also a proponent of a Suez canal. Enfantin was born in Paris, the son of a banker of Dauphiné. After receiving...
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  • The Société d'études du Canal de Suez (more correctly the Société d'études de l'Isthme de Suez) was a society set up in 1846 by the Saint-Simonist Prosper...
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    records the construction of a forerunner of the modern Suez Canal by the Persians, a canal through Wadi Tumilat, connecting the easternmost, Bubastite...
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  • universelle du canal maritime de Suez – in building the Suez Canal in the mid-19th century. On February 25, 2006, French Prime minister Dominique de Villepin...
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    north by northwest, terminating at the Egyptian city of Suez and the entrance to the Suez Canal. Along the mid-line of the gulf is the boundary between...
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    the first photographers to produce images of Egypt and documented the Suez Canal project with extensive photographs and a publication. Very little is known...
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  • Bourdaloue in 1847 during an expedition of the Société d'Études du Canal de Suez were the first generally accepted evidence that there was in fact no...
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    Sinai Peninsula (category Suez Canal)
    other governorates span the Suez Canal, crossing into African Egypt: Suez Governorate on the southern end of the Suez Canal, Ismailia Governorate in the...
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    The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de Panamá) is an artificial 82-kilometre (51-mile) waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific...
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    Scramble for Africa (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    L'Aventure Humaine: Le canal de Suez, Article de l'historien Uwe Oster Archived 2011-08-19 at the Wayback Machine. BBC News website:The Suez Crisis  – Key maps...
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  • East of Suez is used in British military and political discussions in reference to interests beyond the European theatre, and east of the Suez Canal, and...
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    Engie (redirect from GDF SUEZ)
    the merger of Gaz de France and Suez, traces its origins to the Universal Suez Canal Company founded in 1858 to construct the Suez Canal. As of 2018, Engie...
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    Yellow Fleet (category Suez Canal)
    From 1967 to 1975, fifteen ships and their crews were trapped in the Suez Canal after the Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt. The stranded ships, which...
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    Central American canal was a Panama canal. The De Lessups company, which ran the Suez Canal, first attempted to build a Panama Canal in the 1880s. The...
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    Ever Given (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Malaysia to Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the ship ran aground in the Suez Canal, blocking the channel. She remained in place for six days before salvage...
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    newly independent country. Fresh impetus was given by the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, and, the following year, the government of Prime Minister Thrasyvoulos...
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    Ricardo de la Espriella Toral Henri M. Mizrachi K. Lourdes del Carmen Castillo Murillo José A. Sosa A. Alberto Vallarino Clément Suez Canal Authority...
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    Port Said (category Suez Canal)
    Mediterranean Sea, straddling the west bank of the northern mouth of the Suez Canal. It forms the majority of the Port Said governorate, where its seven districts...
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  • construction, between 1859 and 1869, of the Suez Canal, planned and supervised by French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps. The screenplay is so highly fictionalized...
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