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Encyclopedia > Suez (disambiguation)

Suez is a seaport town in north-eastern Egypt. It can also be used to describe the following: Northermost part of Gulf of Suez with town Suez on map of 1856. ...

Suez Canal, seen from Earth orbit, NASA. Ships moored at El Ballah during transit The Suez Canal (Arabic: , transliteration: ), is a large artificial canal in Egypt west of the Sinai Peninsula. ... Suez Canal Authority (SCA) - A state owned authority which own & maintain the Suez Canal. ... An American ship passing under the bridge. ... The Universal Suez Ship Canal Company (French: Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez) was the French corporation which constructed the Suez Canal between 1859 and 1869. ... The Suez Canal overhead line crossing is an electrical power line built across the Suez Canal in 1998. ... Suez Canal Stadium is located in Suez, Egypt. ... Suez Cement is an Egyptian football club based in Suez. ... Combatants Israel United Kingdom France Egypt Commanders Moshe Dayan Charles Keightley Pierre Barjot Gamal Abdel Nasser Abdel Hakim Amer Strength 175,000 Israeli 45,000 British 34,000 French 70,000 Casualties 197 Israeli KIA 56 British KIA 91 British WIA 10 French KIA 43 French WIA 650 KIA 2... Suez Port The Suez Port is located at the southern boundary of Suez Canal. ... The Suez Stadium is a multi-use stadium located in Suez, Egypt. ... The Suez Trinagle is a concept, favoured especially by the early 1980s political literature in the soviet bloc, which stated that major world events of October 1956 were interconnected as part of a western-funded conspiracy. ... During the Cold War, the Eastern Bloc (or Soviet Bloc) comprised the following Central and Eastern European countries: Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, Albania (until the early 1960s, see below), the Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia. ...

See also

  • SUEZ, a leading French-based multinational corporation, with operations primarily in water, electricity and natural gas supply, and waste management


 

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