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Timeline of Port Said

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Port Said, Egypt.

Prior to 20th century

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  • 1859
    • Port Said founded.[1]
    • Population: 150.[2]
  • 1861 - Population: 4,000.[2]
  • 1863 - Sweet Water Canal built.
  • 1869
  • 1870 - Coal heaving porters guild established.[3]
  • 1870s - Anti-European unrest.[4]
  • 1881 - Abbas Mosque commissioned (built later).[5]
  • 1883 - Population: 17,000.[6]
  • 1895 - Headquarter of the Suez Canal Authority in Port Said built.[7]
  • 1896 - First Cinema Projection in the city took place.
  • 1899 - De Lesseps statue unveiled on Jetee Ouest (pier).[6]

20th century

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21st century

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Historical Dictionary of Egypt. Scarecrow Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0-8108-8025-2.
  2. ^ a b Jean-Paul Calon (1997). "Suez Canal revisited: 19th century global infrastructure". Macro-Engineering: MIT Brunel Lectures on Global Infrastructure. Woodhead. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-78242-057-6.
  3. ^ John Chalcraft (2001). "Coal Heavers of Port Sa'id: State-Making and Worker Protest, 1869-1914". International Labor and Working-Class History (60): 110–124. JSTOR 27672741.
  4. ^ Juan R. I. Cole (1989). "Of Crowds and Empires: Afro-Asian Riots and European Expansion, 1857-1882". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 31 (1): 106–133. doi:10.1017/S0010417500015681. JSTOR 178796. S2CID 146461720.
  5. ^ Fassil Demissie, ed. (2012). Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories. Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-7512-9.
  6. ^ a b "Port Said", Egypt and the Sudan (7th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914
  7. ^ Edmond coignet
  8. ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Egypt". www.katolsk.no. Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  9. ^ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
  10. ^ a b "Timeline: The Suez Crisis". BBC News. 18 July 2006.
  11. ^ Janet L. Abu-Lughod (1965). "Urbanization in Egypt: Present State and Future Prospects". Economic Development and Cultural Change. 13 (3): 313–343. doi:10.1086/450113. JSTOR 1152248. S2CID 154169691.
  12. ^ Mohamed Abdel Shakur; et al. (2005). "War and forced migration in Egypt: the experience of evacuation from the Suez Canal cities (1967-1976)". Arab Studies Quarterly. 27 (3): 21–39. JSTOR 41858507.
  13. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  14. ^ United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division (1997). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1995 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 262–321. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  15. ^ Egypt: Port Said, ArchNet, archived from the original on 29 October 2013
  16. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Book of the Year. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2013. ISBN 978-1-62513-103-4.
  17. ^ "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations
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