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| | MSN Encarta - Suez Canal |
 | | Suez Canal, artificial waterway running north to south across the Isthmus of Suez in northeastern Egypt; it connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Gulf of Suez, an arm of the Red Sea. | | | In 1858 La Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez (Universal Company of the Maritime Suez Canal) was formed with authority to cut a canal and to operate it for 99 years, after which ownership would return to the Egyptian government. | | | Egyptian nationalists demanded repeatedly that Britain evacuate the Suez Canal Zone, and in 1954 the two countries signed a seven-year agreement that superseded the 1936 treaty and provided for the gradual withdrawal of all British troops from the zone. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761578705/Suez_Canal.html
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| | Suez Canal |
| | Suez Canal, an artificial waterway running north to south across the Isthmus of Suez in northeastern Egypt; it connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Gulf of Suez, an arm of the Red Sea. | | | The Suez Canal shortens considerably the distance between East and West, for instance, 86% of the distance between the Saudi Port of Jeddah to the Black Sea port of Canstanza is saved if compared to the route round the Cape of Good Hope. | | | The Egyptian government has always been keen on improving and developing the performance of the Suez Canal in order to cope with the steady increase in maritime transport due to the huge capacity of tankers, giant cargo vessels and the ever increasing number of ships crossing the canal. |
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http://www.geocities.com/freighterman.geo/suez.html
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| | The Imperial Attachment to the Suez Canal from 1914 to 1945 |
| | Essentially, the Suez Canal had become so identified with Imperial interests it came to be viewed as part of Britain not just a holding. | | | At the end of 1935, the Suez Canal and all of Egypt, the imperial artery, were defended by one cavalry brigade, one infantry brigade, and one tank brigade, clearly the canal was not of dire importance. | | | The British attachment to the Suez Canal would surely be tested and also their presence in Egypt would be thrown into turmoil due to the status of Egypt being occupied by the British but under the suzerainty of the Sultan. |
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http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/history/pat/nuxichurch.htm
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| | Egypt - Memory of the Suez Canal |
| | Founded in 1855 for the construction and running of the Suez Canal, according to the concession approved to Ferdinand de Lesseps, the C.U.C.M.S. reoriented its activities when the Canal was nationalized by Egypt in 1956. | | | As of 1956, date of the nationalization of the Canal, the accumulation of documents is at the Suez Canal Authority in Egypt. | | | Along the history, many developments occurred which are also documented in different places, the last event being the nationalization of the Suez Canal and its consequences. |
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http://www.unesco.org/webworld/nominations/en/egypt/egypt.htm
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| | The Electronic Passport to the Suez Canal |
| | In 1956, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser seized the canal and declared it to be the property of the Egyptian people. | | | The Suez Canal is often called the "crossroads of Europe, Africa, and Asia" because the route is used to transport goods to and from all three continents. | | | The Suez Canal is one of the most important waterways in the world. |
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http://www.mrdowling.com/607-suez.html
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| | Suez Crisis |
| | British and French troops landed at Port Said at the northern end of the Suez Canal on 5th November. | | | The Suez Canal Company was registered as an Egyptian company under Egyptian law; and Colonel Nasser had indicated that he intended to compensate the shareholders at ruling market prices. | | | In the whole history of the Suez fiasco, nothing has become clearer than the effect of Macmillan's tough line with Murphy both then and throughout the following weeks, when Eden was going through the torment of preparing to use force to recapture the Canal. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDsuez.htm
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| | Suez -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Arabic As-suways, Egyptian port at the head of the Gulf of Suez and at the southern terminal of the Suez Canal. | | | The gulf is linked to the Mediterranean Sea by the Suez Canal (north) and is an important... | | | "Excerpt from the speech by President Nasser of the United Arab Republic, September 15, 1956 in which he defends nationalization of the Suez Canal. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9070158?tocId=9070158
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| | The History Guy:Arab-Israeli Wars:Suez War (1956) |
| | This plan led to a joint invasion and occupation of the Suez Canal zone by Britain and France. | | | In 1956, three of the Twentieth Century's most dominant forces came together in a short, violent clash in the Egyptian regions known as the Suez Canal and the Sinai Peninsula. | | | --Nasser's speech on the Suez Canal and negotiations with Britain and France. |
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http://www.historyguy.com/suez_war_1956.html
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| | Middle East Research |
| | By June 7th, Israel's troops had secured the eastern bank of the Suez Canal. | | | "Nasser Nationalizes the Suez Canal: 1956." WebChron: The Web Chronology Project. | | | The Suez Canal has been the site of three wars: the 1956 Suez Crisis, the 1967 Six-Day War, and the 1973 Yom Kippur War. |
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http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/suez.htm
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| | Suez Canal Crisis |
| | (Britain, France and Israel had united in secret, something that they denied publicly for many years, and made arrangements for Israel to make the initial invasion of Egypt and capture one side of the Suez Canal.) When further British and French diplomatic initiatives failed, they sent troops to occupy the canal. | | | History of the Suez Canal is another short article, as is a student literature paper at Brown University and another short essay. | | | After Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal, President Eisenhower refused to join Britain, France and Israel in an invasion of Egypt. |
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http://novaonline.nvcc.vccs.edu/eli/evans/his135/Events/Suez56.htm
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| | Suez |
| | Albert would have disembarked at Suez, a place he would come to know very well in the following two years, the port of Suez, where the Red Sea meets the southern entrance to the Suez Canal, was being developed to supply the Middle East Allied forces in their fight against the Axis Powers. | | | The Suez Canal, the principal maritime trade route between Europe and the Middle and Far East, was of enormous Strategic and economic importance, particularly as Britain`s Main Artery to India. | | | Although West Point was bound for Suez, to embark Australian troops, who were being withdrawn from the North African front to face the Japanese in South East Asia, she did not arrive at the port, according to her record of cruises, until the 10 |
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http://www.far-eastern-heroes.org.uk/alberts_war/html/suez.htm
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| | The Suez Canal represented a remnant of the colonial era -- built on the backs and with the blood of the Egyptian people it was a constant reminder of their loss of dignity. | | | Roger Louis, "The Tragedy of the Anglo-Egyptian Settlement of 1954," Suez 1956: The Crisis and Its Consequences, eds. | | | The Suez Crisis was a turning point in the Middle East because it heralded the beginning of a series of new eras. |
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http://history.acusd.edu/gen/text/suez.html
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| | The "Suez Crisis", 1956 |
| | The roots of the Suez Crisis were the British and French wish to keep the Suez Canal under their control, as well as the protracted animosity between the Arabs disappointed by the results of the war in 1948 and the Israelis, which wanted to secure their position due to being surrounded by enemies. | | | Mystére IVA of the 101 Sqn, seen shortly before the "Suez Campaign" - as the Israelis call the war in 1956. | | | The new Egyptian government signed a new treaty with the British, which saw a pull out of remaining troops by 1956. |
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http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/printer_103.shtml
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| | The Electronic Passport to the Suez Canal |
| | Egypt and Israel agreed to a peace treaty in 1979, and since then the Suez Canal has been open to every nation. | | | About 150 years ago, Great Britain had a thriving trade with India, but without a canal, British ships had to make a long journey around the entire continent of Africa. | | | Egypt was forced to sell the canal to Great Britain. |
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http://www.mrdowling.com/607-suez.html
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| | Suez Canal on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Egypt agreed to pay, in six annual installments, approximately $81 million to shareholders of the nationalized Suez Canal Company; final payment was made on Jan. 1, 1963. | | | Qanat as Suways, waterway of Egypt extending from Port Said to Port Tawfiq (near Suez) and connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Gulf of Suez and thence with the Red Sea. | | | Having been denied passage through the canal since 1950 and having suffered repeated border raids from Egypt, Israel, with French and English air support, invaded Egyptian territory on Oct. 29, 1956. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/s/suezc1ana.asp
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| | Suez Canal Crisis |
| | (Britain, France and Israel had united in secret, something that they denied publicly for many years, and made arrangements for Israel to make the initial invasion of Egypt and capture one side of the Suez Canal.) When further British and French diplomatic initiatives failed, they sent troops to occupy the canal. | | | When attempts to reach an agreement with Egypt on a new form of international control for the Canal failed, Israel accused Egypt of planning an attack and sent the Israeli army across the Sinai Peninsula toward the Canal. | | | When Egypt concluded an arms deal with Czechoslovakia, the U.S. Secretary of State John Dulles announced the withdrawal of all U.S. funds and assistance for President Gamal Abdel Nasser's, who had come to power in the 1953 nationalistic revolution, development program. |
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http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans/his135/Events/Suez56.htm
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| | Suez Canal on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Having been denied passage through the canal since 1950 and having suffered repeated border raids from Egypt, Israel, with French and English air support, invaded Egyptian territory on Oct. 29, 1956. | | | In the region of El Quantarah on the Egyptian part of the Suez canal zone, children's drawings show Israeli forces parachuting into Egypt. | | | After the Suez Canal was closed, many ships (especially tankers) were built that were too large for the canal, and alternate sea routes were used increasingly in world trade. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/s/suezc1ana.asp
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| | Suez Canal, Information on the Suez Canal in Egypt |
| | Unfortunately between the Suez Crisis and later wars, the canal was damaged extensively and was not operated for several year after 1967. | | | However, in 1833, a group of French intellectuals known as the Saint-Simoniens arived in Cairo and were very interested in the Suez project despite such problems as the difference in sea levels. | | | On November 17, 1869 the barrage of the Suez plains reservoir was breached and waters of the Mediterranean flowed into the Red Sea. |
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http://touregypt.net/suezcanal.htm
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| | About the Red Sea |
| | The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 made the Red Sea one of the chief shipping routes connecting Europe with East Asia and Australia. | | | The closing of the canal after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the building of pipelines to the Mediterranean Sea, and the construction of supertankers too large for the canal diminished the sea's importance as a commercial artery, especially for petroleum. | | | The Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez are the sea's northern arms; between them is the Sinai Peninsula. |
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| | The Suez Crisis of 1956 did not involve the world's two major powers - America and Russia - but Suez was an important event in the Cold War as it tended to overshadow the events in Hungary. | | | This was jointly owned by Britain and France and very little of the huge profits made by the canal ever went into the Egyptian economy. | | | The leading Arab nation in the world in the late 1940's was Egypt but she was considered to be a Third World nation with the classic symptoms of poverty etc. that were found in such nations. |
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http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/suez.htm
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| | Suez Canal - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | On 26 July 1956, the newly established republican government of Egypt under president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal, which caused Britain, France and Israel to invade in the week-long Suez War, also known as the Tripartite Invasion. | | | Since 1980 there has been a road tunnel under the canal, and since 1999 a powerline crosses Suez Canal. | | | The Suez Canal in peace and war, 1869-1969, |
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http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/suez_canal.htm
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| | Suez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It was rebuilt after the reopening of the Suez Canal in 1975, which links between the Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea. | | | 497,000) in Egypt, located on the Gulf of Suez, near the mouth of the Suez Canal. | | | Suez (Arabic: السويس as-Suways) is a port town (population ca. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez
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| | Young Students Learning Library: SUEZ CANAL@ HighBeam Research |
| | The Suez Canal is an artificial (man-made) waterway that links the Mediterranean Sea with the Gulf of Suez, an arm of the Red Sea. | | | Young Students Learning Library: SUEZ CANAL@ HighBeam Research | | | The canal runs across the Isthmus of Suez, a desert area that connects northeast Africa with southwest Asia. |
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| | BBC NEWS Middle East Suez Canal reopened for traffic |
| | A spokesman for the Suez Canal Authority said Egyptian salvage workers had finally refloated the tanker after pumping out 25,000 tons of oil - about a quarter of its load - to another vessel. | | | The stranded Liberian-registered vessel has been shifted by tugs and is moving north, the Suez Canal Authority said. | | | Egypt's Suez Canal has reopened for shipping traffic, three days after a broken-down oil tanker forced the longest closure in almost 30 years. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3994903.stm
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| | ASTER Image Gallery: Suez Canal, Egypt |
| | Strategically and economically one of the most important waterways in the world, the Suez Canal runs north to south across the Isthmus of Suez in northeastern Egypt. | | | With a length of about 195 kilometers (about 121 miles) and a minimum channel width of 60 meters (197 feet), the Suez Canal is able to accommodate ships as large as 150,000 tons fully loaded. | | | It connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Gulf of Suez, an arm of the Red Sea. |
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http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/gallery.htm?name=Suez
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| | MSN Encarta - Suez Crisis |
| | Suez Crisis, international confrontation along the Suez Canal in 1956 that pitted Egypt against the combined forces of Israel, Britain, and France. | | | Become a subscriber today and gain access to: |
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| | THE SUEZ CANAL WONDER OF THE MODERN WORLD AND THIRTEENTH PORT OF CALL OF SOLAR NAVIGATOR SUNSHINE ROUTE |
| | The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Gulf of Suez, an arm of the Red Sea. | | | Currently, the Suez Canal can accommodate ships with drafts of up to 58 feet, which means that very large crude carriers (VLCCs) and ultra large crude carriers (ULCCs) cannot pass through the Canal. | | | The Egyptian government plans to widen and deepen the Suez Canal, so that by 2010 it can accommodate VLCCs and ULCCs. |
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| | BBC ON THIS DAY 26 1956: Egypt seizes Suez Canal |
| | The Suez Canal was attacked by Anglo-French and Israeli forces in October 1956 | | | The Suez Canal Company, which manages the waterway, is legally Egyptian but, in 1869 was granted a 99 years' concession. | | | The Suez Canal is a key waterway for world trade and an important source of revenue for Britain. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/26/newsid_2701000/2701603.stm
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| | Suez Canal |
| | Artificial waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to Gulf of Suez, and then to the Red Sea. | | | 1854: By a French initiative, the viceroy of Egypt, Said Pasha, decides for the project of building a canal that would connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. | | | Egypt answers with sinking the 40 ships that are inside the canal at the moment. |
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http://i-cias.com/e.o/suez_can.htm
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| | The Inaugration of the Suez Canal |
| | In July 1956, Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal after it had been an international company for about 87 years. | | | The Suez Canal shortens considerably the distance between East and West, for instance, 86% of the distance between the Saudi Port of Jeddah to the Black Sea port of Canstanza is saved if compared to the route round the Cape of Good Hope. | | | The Egyptian government has always been keen on improving and developing the performance of the Suez Canal in order to cope with the steady increase in maritime transport due to the huge capacity of tankers, giant cargo vessels and the ever increasing number of ships crossing the canal. |
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