Suez Canal opened

Historical Context Essay

Litencyc Editors (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 8.1.2: North African Writing and Culture: Francophone, Arabic, Spanish.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (Universidad de Antioquia), Lia Brozgal (University of California, Los Angeles), Helen Rachel Cousins (Newman University), Ziad Elmarsafy (King's College London), Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Dalia Mostafa (University of Manchester), Nora Parr (SOAS, University of London), Rita Sakr (Maynooth University)

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Civil engineering

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Date of occurrence 1869-11-17

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Egypt (Location)

The Suez Canal joins the Mediterranean and the Red Sea by means of a sea-level cutting that links several great lakes acorss the isthmus of Suez. The idea for a canal in modern times was on occasion promoted by the Venetians and French in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries but the first serious examination of the prospects was undertaken by Napoleon during his occupation of Egypt (1798–1801). Further projects were undertaken in 1834 and 1846 and finally the project went ahead in 1854 when Ferdinand de Lesseps received a concession from the Egytpian khedive (viceroy), Sa’id Pasha, for the exploitation of the canal for 99 years after completion of the work. The “Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez” was floated a…

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Citation: Editors, Litencyc. "Suez Canal opened". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 March 2007 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1071, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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