Fayed (Egypt)
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Arabic فايد Fayed |
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| Coordinates | 30 ° 20 ' N , 32 ° 18' E | ||
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| Country | Egypt | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | EG-IS | ||
| Residents | 21,808 | ||
Fayed ( Arabic فايد Fāyid ) is a place in Egypt about 20 kilometers south of Ismailia on the west bank of the Great Bitter Lake . It is about halfway down the Suez Canal . At the same time, the name designates an administrative district with around 17,500 inhabitants (2001, 37 percent of them illiterate), which consists of several places.
Originally Fayed was mainly a fishing village; Fish from the bitter lakes is particularly popular in Egypt because of its quality and is accordingly expensive. Agriculture on a larger scale has only returned since the historic Ismailia Canal was dredged and flooded again in the course of the construction of the Suez Canal .
During the Second World War there were several camps in and around Fayed for German prisoners of war, members of the German Africa Corps and the associations deployed in Italy and Greece, as well as interned German citizens. The camps were occupied by up to 15,000 people each. They were notorious for causing many inmates to become mentally ill or commit suicide due to the heat and other poor conditions . These conditions were denounced in the "Declaration of the Prisoners of War Protestant Pastors in Egypt" of October 11, 1947, which resulted in relief. This included a football match between British soldiers and German prisoners of war, which the Germans won 3-0 in front of 7,000 spectators at the Viktoria Lido Stadium Fayed. In 1948 the last prisoners were released to Germany.
Because of its strategically important location, British, now Egyptian troops - with a college for officers - were stationed in Fayed.
Fayed is also the closest resort to Cairo , where wealthy Egyptians own weekend homes.
Fayed War Cemetery
Since June 1941 there has been a British military cemetery in Fayed with around 1,800 graves for the dead of the garrisons stationed there as well as the German prisoners of the camps. The cemetery is looked after by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Weindel: Living and learning behind barbed wire. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001, ISBN 978-3-525-55757-0 , p. 319 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ↑ The football king from Bitter Lake. Der Spiegel , September 4, 2008, accessed on March 18, 2015 .