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ZAGAZIG (Zalzazik)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 950 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ZAGAZIG (Zalzazik)  , a
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town of
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Lower
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Egypt,
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capital of the
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province of Sharkia . Pop . (1907) 34,999, including 2617
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Copts and 1355 Greeks . It is built on a
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branch of the Fresh
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Water or
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Ismailia
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canal, and on the Al-Mo'izz canal (the
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ancient Tanitic channel of the
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Nile), and is 47 M. by
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rail N.N.E. of
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Cairo . Situated on the
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Delta in the midst of a fertile
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district,
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Zagazig is a
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great centre of the
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cotton and
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grain
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trade of Egypt . It has large cotton factories and the offices of numerous
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European merchants . About a mile
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south of the town are the ruins of
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Bubastis (q.v.) .

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