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Suez is a port town (population ca. 460,000) in Egypt, located on the Gulf of Suez[?], near the mouth of the Suez Canal. The town was utterly destroyed and deserted following the Second Arab-Israeli War in 1967. It was rebuilt after the reopening of the canal in 1975.

see also Suez Crisis

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