Port Said Attractions
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Apart from commerce and shipping the main elements in the city's economy are foodstuffs and chemical industries and the production of salt.
Port Said (Bur Said; named after Viceroy Said, 1854-63), chief town of a governorate, Egypt's fourth largest city and after Alexandria its largest port, lies in a barren and desolate setting on a narrow strip of land which is gradually increasing in width by the deposit of silt between Lake Manzala and the north entrance of the Suez Canal, to which the town owed its foundation in 1859.
In November 1956 much of what was then a thriving town was destroyed by air bombardment during the Suez War.
Port Said (Bur Said; named after Viceroy Said, 1854-63), chief town of a governorate, Egypt's fourth largest city and after Alexandria its largest port, lies in a barren and desolate setting on a narrow strip of land which is gradually increasing in width by the deposit of silt between Lake Manzala and the north entrance of the Suez Canal, to which the town owed its foundation in 1859.
In November 1956 much of what was then a thriving town was destroyed by air bombardment during the Suez War.
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