Lake Manzala (Arabic: بحيرة المنزلةbaḥīrat manzala), also Manzaleh, is a brackish lake, sometimes called a lagoon, in northeastern Egypt on the Nile Delta near Port Said and a few miles from the ancient ruins at Tanis.[1][2] It is the largest of the northern deltaic lakes of Egypt.[3] As of 2008 it is 47 km long and 30 km wide.[3]
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LakeManzala (Arabic: بحيرة المنزلة baḥīrat manzala), also Manzaleh, is a brackish lake, sometimes called a lagoon, in northeastern Egypt on the Nile...
El Manzala (Arabic: المنزلة) is a region (markaz) in Egypt. Situated in the Dakahlia Governorate, it lies on the LakeManzala coast in the northeastern...
the canal. The Ismailia section of the Suez Canal, which connected LakeManzala to Lake Timsah, was completed in November 1862. Construction of the segment...
Septuagint, now Tell Defenneh, was a city in ancient Egypt. It was located on LakeManzala on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, about 26 km (16 miles) from Pelusium...
coastal LakeManzala in the north-east of the delta. To the north-west are three other coastal lakes or lagoons: Lake Burullus, Lake Idku and Lake Mariout...
31°12′N 32°14′E, on an island in LakeManzala, southwest of Port Said. The city's name was taken from Lake Tinnis, LakeManzala's name at the time. Tinnis was...
Baqar Drain (BBD), which in turn drains to LakeManzala 170 km away from Cairo. The drain and LakeManzala had been identified as "black spots" by the...
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Cairo. In November, a Crusader fleet sails up the Nile and arrives in LakeManzala, sacking the town of Tanis. Nur al-Din, Zangid ruler (atabeg) of Aleppo...
occurrence of a line of lakes or depressions which became lakes (LakeManzala in the north, and depressions, Timsah and the Bitter Lakes, part way along the...
Sidney Smith unloaded an army of Janissaries near Damietta, between LakeManzala and the sea. The garrison of Damietta, 800 infantry and 150 cavalry strong...
Tinnis or Thenessus) located 7 km (4.3 mi) southwest of Port Said on LakeManzala and can be reached from Port Said by boat. One can find historic churches...
the Nile Delta are Lake Mariout south of Alexandria, Lake Edku east of Alexandria, Lake Burullus east of Rosetta and LakeManzala between Damietta and...
the main river just below Mansurah and ran past Ashmun al-Rumman to LakeManzala, isolating the island of Damietta. Fakhr ad-Din kept the bulk of his...
name. In the 1820s, Eduard Rüppell collected a female jungle cat near LakeManzala in the Nile Delta. Thomas Hardwicke's collection of illustrations of...
the Tanitic mouth of the Nile, providing access to the food sources of LakeManzala. As usual, there was partisan struggles as to the rule of the city, secular...
260 km wide. There are some lakes and lagoons with marshes near the seacoast; some of the larger are Lake Burullus and LakeManzala. The topsoil in the delta...
300 ft) to the west, by a wide strip of sandy beach where a tongue of LakeManzala reached towards the sea. This inlet soon dried out and was replaced by...
starts at the Damietta branch of the Nile and stretches southwest towards LakeManzala, then south to drain at El Sarow drainage. It then moves east and then...
habitats. It is also found in the dunes of the salt marsh around LakeManzala and Lake Mariut, on the west Mediterranean coast and also the salt marshes...
Cairo. In November, a Crusader fleet sails up the Nile and arrives in LakeManzala, sacking the town of Tanis. Nur al-Din, Zangid ruler (atabeg) of Aleppo...