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Urban Suez

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Adele D. Oliver

Adele D. Oliver


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Urban Suez

Suez is a seaport city (population ca. 497,000) in north-eastern Egypt, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal, having extensive port facilities. Railway lines and highways connect the city with Cairo, Port Said, and Ismailia. Suez has a petrochemical plant, and its oil refineries have pipelines carrying the finished product to Cairo.
The city was virtually destroyed during battles in the late 1960s and early 1970s between Egyptian and Israeli forces occupying the Sinai Peninsula. The town was deserted following the Six Day War in 1967. Reconstruction of Suez began soon after Egypt reopened the Suez Canal, following the October War with Israel.
Suez was the first city to hold major protests against the government of Hosni Mubarak during the 2011 Egyptian revolution and was the scene of the first fatality of that uprising. (thank you, Wiki)

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Sektion Reise: On the Ocean
Ordner Egypt, Nile, Petra
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Kamera Canon PowerShot SX50 HS
Objektiv Unknown 4-215mm
Blende 5.6
Belichtungszeit 1/500
Brennweite 38.7 mm
ISO 80