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Ezbet El Borg

Coordinates : 31°30′11″N 31°50′28″E  /  31.50306°N 31.84111°E  / 31.50306; 31.84111
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Ezbet El Borg
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City
Map showing Izbat al-Burj in relation to the city of Damietta
Map showing Izbat al-Burj in relation to the city of Damietta
Ezbet El Borg is located in Egypt
Ezbet El Borg
Ezbet El Borg
Location in Egypt
Coordinates: 31°30′11″N 31°50′28″E  /  31.50306°N 31.84111°E  / 31.50306; 31.84111
Country   Egypt
Governorate Damietta
Population
 ? Total 70,000
Time zone UTC+2 ( EST )
Ezbet al-Borg

Ezbet El Borg ( Arabic : ???? ????? , IPA: [??ezbet el?bo??] ; also transliterated ?Izbat 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 [ edit ]

The Ras El Bar lighthouse seen from Ezbet El Borg.
Urabi fort (Tabiet Orabi) in Ezbet al-Borg

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. [ citation needed ] The town was historically granted to the Syrian Kahil family by Muhammad Ali of Egypt . [2]

In recent history, there were accusations of ballot stuffing at the local voting station during the 2007 Shura Council election . The August 2009 Egyptian hostage escape from Somali pirates mostly involved sailors from the town. [ citation needed ]

Economy [ edit ]

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 [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ ????? ???? ????? (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 26 January 2013 . Retrieved 13 July 2012 .
  2. ^ Philipp, Thomas (1985). The Syrians in Egypt, 1725?1975 . Steiner. p. 93. ISBN   978-3-515-04031-0 . Retrieved 13 July 2012 .
  3. ^ The New Encyclopædia Britannica: Micropædia . Encyclopædia Britannica. 1993. p.  867 . ISBN   978-0-85229-571-7 . Retrieved 13 July 2012 .
  4. ^ United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service; United States. Joint Publications Research Service (1983). Near East/South Asia report . Foreign Broadcast Information Service . Retrieved 13 July 2012 .
  5. ^ Hopkins, Harry (1969). Egypt, the Crucible: The Unfinished Revolution in the Arab World . Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN   9780436201516 . Ezbet el-Borg ship.
  6. ^ Jihad Abaza, Mahmoud Mostafa and Amira El-Fekki (14 April 2015). "The 'forgotten' fishermen of Ezbet El-Borg" . Daily News Egypt . Retrieved 10 April 2017 .

External links [ edit ]

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