Izbat al-Burj

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عزبة البرج
Izbat al-Burj
Izbat al-Burj (Egypt)
Izbat al-Burj
Izbat al-Burj
Coordinates 31 ° 30 ′  N , 31 ° 50 ′  E Coordinates: 31 ° 30 ′  N , 31 ° 50 ′  E
location
Basic data
Country Egypt

Governorate

Dumyat
ISO 3166-2 EG-DT
Residents 70,000
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Izbat al-Burj ( Arabic عزبة البرج, DMG ʿIzbat al-Burǧ ; English often transliterated as Izbat Al Burj  ; Egyptian-Arabic : ʿEzbet el-Borg  , [ˈʕezbet elˈboɾɡ] ) is a coastal city with a notable fishing industry in the Dumyat Governorate in Egypt . The city is located 15 km northeast of Dumyat (Damiette) and 210 km from Cairo and has about 70,000 inhabitants.

The city is located on Egypt's Mediterranean coast at the mouth of the Damietta River, an arm of the Nile , opposite the city of Ras El Bar .

history

The city got its name after the watchtower that once stood here (the Arabic word burdsch means "tower"). In 1869 a 60 m high lighthouse was built to guide ships in the Mediterranean , but this point is now only a shallow area of ​​the Nile Delta . The founding of the city goes back to a fiefdom from Muhammad Ali Pasha to the Syrian family Kahil.

economy

The city is home to around 10,000 fishermen - that is around 10% of the workers in this branch of industry in Egypt - and the base of one of the largest fishing fleets in Egypt, including traditional feluccas . There is also a factory in town that canned sardines . The fishing is thus the main source of income of the local population. Local fishermen sail out to the eastern Mediterranean and the Red Sea . The city is also a center of ship and yacht construction in Egypt .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ مدينة عزبة البرج ( Arabic ) Archived from the original on February 4, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 13, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.domyat.gov.eg
  2. ↑ Thomas Philipp: The Syrians in Egypt, 1725-1975 . Steiner, 1985, ISBN 978-3-515-04031-0 , p. 93 (accessed July 13, 2012).
  3. ^ The New Encyclopædia Britannica: Micropædia . Encyclopædia Britannica, 1993, ISBN 978-0-85229-571-7 , p. 867 (accessed July 13, 2012).
  4. ↑ United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service, United States. Joint Publications Research Service: Near East / South Asia report . Ed .: Foreign Broadcast Information Service. ( google.com [accessed July 13, 2012]).

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