Suez Canal Zone

Suez Canal

A ship canal, about 166 km (103 mi) long, traversing the Isthmus of Suez and linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Suez with the Mediterranean Sea. Built under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps, it was opened in 1869 and came under British control after 1875. The British withdrew in 1956, and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal, precipitating a crisis in which Israel invaded Egypt, and Great Britain and France sent armed forces to retake the canal. United Nations intervention forced an armistice, and the canal was reopened in April 1957. The canal was again closed during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and remained closed until June 1975.

Suez Canal

(Placename) a sea-level canal in NE Egypt, crossing the Isthmus of Suez and linking the Mediterranean with the Red Sea: built (1854-69) by de Lesseps with French and Egyptian capital; nationalized in 1956 by the Egyptians. Length: 163 km (101 miles)

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Suez Canal - a ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea

Arab Republic of Egypt, Egypt, United Arab Republic - a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC

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Suez Canal [ˌsuːɪzkəˈnæl] n → canal m de Suez

Suez Canal

n → Sueskanal m, → Suezkanal m

Suez Canal n the Suez Canal → il canale di Suez

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At that time there were many colonial "hot spots" to be policed around the world and one in particular was the gateway to the East - the Suez Canal zone of Egypt where, by 1951, nationalism was becoming the new rising force around the region.

Canal zone defenders by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)

I HAVE written a book, Suez: The Hidden Truths, which details those turbulent years of the early 1950s in the Suez Canal Zone of Egypt, where thousands of mostly international service men were posted to defend a strip of water against a hostile and barbaric foe in absolutely appalling conditions.

Time to reveal hidden truth by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)

I'VE written a book, Suez: The Hidden Truths, which details those turbulent years of the early 1950s in the Suez Canal Zone of Egypt where thousands of mostly national servicemen were posted to defend a "strip of water" against a hostile and barbaric foe in absolutely appalling conditions.

The Suez travesty; YourSay by Birmingham Mail (England)

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