City
Kafr El Battikh
Northern Africa
Kafr El Battikh is a city in the Damietta Governorate of Egypt, with a population estimated at 44,700 people in 2018. Its older name was Bura, which comes from a Coptic name for the grey mullet, and the source calls the settlement an important fishing town. It received its present name when its production changed to watermelons in the Ottoman period. The medieval writer Yaqut mentions turbans, besides fish, as the other claim to fame of the place, and the source records that Bura was captured for a short time by the Crusaders in 1213.
Facts
Climate Zone Sources
1. Kafr El Battikh (Wikipedia)
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Its population was estimated at 44,700 people in 2018
2. CIA World Factbook (factbook.json archive): The World Factbook archive: Egypt
CIA World Factbook (factbook.json archive)Environment.Climate.textQuote, Environment.Climate.text
desert; hot, dry summers with moderate winters
3. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA Time Zone Database, africa zone file
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Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:09 - LMT 1900 Oct
2:00 Egypt EE%sT
Egypt (Wikipedia)
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Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa
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