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/gəlf əv sˈuɛz/ Listen

Gulf of Suez

noun

A northwestern arm of the Red Sea linked to the Mediterranean by the Suez Canal.

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... sensible that travellers ought particularly to visit wells in the desert, because it is at these natural stations that traces of former inhabitants are more likely to be found than any where else. The Wady Naszeb empties its waters in the rainy season into the gulf of Suez, at a short distance ...

— Travels in Syria and the Holy Land • John Burckhardt

... improvements and progressive ideas, the Egyptians were centuries before us in this plan of shortening the path of commerce between the East and the West; or, in other words, of connecting the Red Sea with that of the Mediterranean across the Isthmus and through the Gulf of Suez. The purpose was probably never thoroughly carried out until De Lesseps's consummation of it as ...

— Foot-prints of Travel - or, Journeyings in Many Lands • Maturin M. Ballou

... was the original god of Heliopolis and the Delta side, round to the gulf of Suez, which formerly reached up to Ismailiyeh. How far his nature as the setting sun was the result of his being identified with Ra, is not clear. It may be that he was simply a creator-god, and that the introduction of Ra led to his being unified with him. Those who take the view that the names ...

— The Religion of Ancient Egypt • W. M. Flinders Petrie