Ezbet El Borg

Ezbet El Borg is a coastal city with a large fishing industry in Damietta Governorate, Egypt, 15 kilometres northeast of Damietta and 210 kilometres from Cairo, with a population of approximately 70,000. It is situated on the northern coast of Egypt at the mouth of the Damietta river, a distributary of the Nile, opposite Ras El Bar. The name, meaning village of the tower, refers to a defensive tower that once stood there. In 1869 a minaret 55 metres high was built to guide ships in the Mediterranean Sea, but that location is now a shallow spot in the Nile riverbed. The town was historically granted to the Syrian Kahil family by Muhammad Ali of Egypt.