Suez Canal Authority, شارع الجمهوريه, الدائرة الجمركية, سيريا, بورسعيد, 42529, مصر
Suez Canal Authority
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The Suez Canal[1] Authority's own history page and Wikipedia[2] both give 25 April 1859 for the start of digging at Port Said (Al-Farama). HISTORY.com[3][4] says only 'early 1859', which is consistent.On 25 April 1859 the Suez Canal Company broke ground at what is now Port Said, starting a ten-year dig across the Isthmus of Suez. The Suez Canal Authority says about 20,000 Egyptians took part in the groundbreaking despite objections from Britain and the Ottoman Empire.
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