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The history of the Suez Canal is a very long one.1 From the time of the Pharaohs, about 1900 B.C. till 776 A. D., when the last canal was closed by order of the second Abbasid Caliph, Aben-Jafas-Al Mansour, there seem to have been altogether no less than five canals.2 After this date, a long period of rest followed in which the question of the canal remained more or less dormant,3 until it was formally taken up again at the end of the eighteenth century.
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© 1970 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Obieta, J.A. (1970). Historical Background. In: The International Status of the Suez Canal. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6445-0_2
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