Place:Ezbet El Borg
Ezbet El Borg عزبة البرج | |
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 Map showing Izbat al-Burj in relation to the city of Damietta | |
  Ezbet El Borg Location in Egypt | |
| Coordinates: [ ⚑ ] : 31°30′11″N 31°50′28″E / 31.50306°N 31.84111°E | |
| Country |  Egypt |
| Governorate | Damietta |
| Population | |
| • Total | 70,000 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Ezbet El Borg (Arabic: عزبة البرج, arz; also transliterated ʻIzbat al-Burj, lit. Village of the Tower) is a coastal city with a large fishing industry in Damietta Governorate, Egypt. It is 15 km (9 mi) northeast of Damietta, and 210 km (130 mi) from Cairo. Its population is approximately 70,000.[1]
The city is situated on the northern coast of Egypt at the mouth of the Damietta river, a distributary of the Nile, opposite Ras El Bar.
History
The city was named in reference to the defensive tower that once stood there ("Burj" in Arabic means tower). In 1869, a 180-foot (55 m) minaret was built to guide ships in the Mediterranean Sea, but this location is now just a shallow spot in the Nile riverbed. The town was historically granted to the Syrian Kahil family by Muhammad Ali of Egypt.[2]
Economy
The city is home to approximately 10,000 fishermen (1% of Egypt's total), and the base of Egypt's largest fishing boat fleet, including boats of the traditional felucca type. The city is also home to a sardine-canning factory operated by the Edfina Company.[3] The fishing sector provides the main source of income for the locals.[4] Many of the fishing boats venture far along the Eastern Mediterranean and the Red Sea. It is also a center for ship and yacht-building in Egypt.[5] In 2014 and 2015, the fishermen of Ezbet El Borg were involved in a dispute with the Egyptian Authority for Maritime Safety regarding compliance with maritime safety standards.[6]
See also
- Ezbet El Nakhl
- List of cities and towns in Egypt
References
- ↑ "Error: no
|title=specified when using {{Cite web}}" (in ar). http://www.domyat.gov.eg/arabic/borg/INDEX.HTM. - ↑ Philipp, Thomas (1985). The Syrians in Egypt, 1725–1975. Steiner. p. 93. ISBN 978-3-515-04031-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=FyZyAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ↑ The New Encyclopædia Britannica: Micropædia. Encyclopædia Britannica. 1993. p. 867. ISBN 978-0-85229-571-7. https://archive.org/details/newencyclopaedia07ency. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ↑ United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service; United States. Joint Publications Research Service (1983). Near East/South Asia report. Foreign Broadcast Information Service. https://books.google.com/books?id=rSW6AAAAIAAJ. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ↑ Hopkins, Harry (1969). Egypt, the Crucible: The Unfinished Revolution in the Arab World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 9780436201516. https://archive.org/details/egyptcrucibleunf00hopk. "Ezbet el-Borg ship."
- ↑ Jihad Abaza, Mahmoud Mostafa and Amira El-Fekki (14 April 2015). "The 'forgotten' fishermen of Ezbet El-Borg". Daily News Egypt. https://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2015/04/14/the-forgotten-fishermen-of-ezbet-el-borg/.
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