El Qantara

El Qantara, Arabic for the bridge, is a northeastern Egyptian city on both sides of the Suez Canal, in the governorate of Ismailia, 160 kilometres northeast of Cairo and 50 kilometres south of Port Said. The two parts of the city are connected by a high-level fixed road bridge, the Mubarak Peace Bridge, which links Africa and Asia and makes El Qantara a border town. The city was built next to the site of the ancient city of Sele. During World War I, Kantara, as Allied troops called it, was the site of Headquarters No. 3 Section, Canal Defences and Headquarters Eastern Force in the later stages of the Defence of the Suez Canal Campaign and the Sinai Campaign of 1916.