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December 23

Port Said Day




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  • On the 23 rd of December Egypt celebrates every year the Victory Day which is considered the National Day of Port Said Governorate. On that day the Egyptian people and army repelled the British, French and Israeli aggression.

  • This aggression came in reply to Egypt's nationalization of the Suez Canal on July 26 th, 1956 the move aimed to make use of the Canal's revenues in building the High Dam.


  • This aggression was a failure due to the cooperation insured between the people and the army and due to the good handling of the crisis on the side of the political leadership, especially the position of the United Nations which condemned the aggression and the declaration of the U.S.A and the Soviet Union denouncing the use of force to settle the dispute between Egypt on the one side and Britain and France on the other. Due to pressures of the world public opinion, Britain and France were urged to withdraw on Dec. 23rd, 1956. The Israeli troops left Sinai and Gaza by the beginning of 1956.


  • Egypt succeeded in building the High Dam which was officially opened in Jan. 15th, 1971. The Dam has protected Egypt from drought and high floods. As a result of this giant project comes the New Delta project which starts south of the High Dam and runs through to the Farafara Oasis in the Western Desert which will be launched at the beginning of January 1997 to create a new valley parallel to the old Nile valley.

  • Afterwards, Port Said has become a free zone. Today, the city is about to start the implementation of some gigantic projects in the fields of tourism and industry including the large free zone in the east sub-canal which will be a main source of hard currency.








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