El Matareya, also spelled Matarieh or la Matarée, is a coastal city and district (markaz) in the Dakahlia Governorate of Egypt, south of Port Said on the shore of Lake Manzala, and is nicknamed the fishing town. It should not be confused with the district of El Matareya in Cairo. Its estimated population was 164,743 in 2023, spread over two main districts, El-Ghasna and El-Okbiyine, which were separate islands until a government decree of 1903 united them as one city. Its fishermen joined the resistance to the French in 1798, with 100 boats opposing French warships, although the city was occupied that October, and they later carried water to the workers digging the Suez Canal. A fire destroyed the city in 1907, and Khedive Abbas II then ordered its mosques rebuilt. It was declared a separate city in the 1930s.
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1. CIA World Factbook (factbook.json archive): The World Factbook archive: Egypt
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desert; hot, dry summers with moderate winters
2. 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
El Matareya, Dakahlia (Wikipedia)
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is a coastal city and region (markaz) in Egypt
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is a coastal city and region (markaz) in Egypt
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Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa
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