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Zagazig

American  
[zah-gah-zeeg] / ˌzɑ gɑˈzig /

noun

  1. a city in NE Egypt, on the Nile delta.


Zagazig British  
/ ˈzæɡəˌzɪɡ /

noun

  1. a city in NE Egypt, in the Nile Delta: major cotton market. Pop: 291 000 (2005 est)

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Officers took Shehta to a police station in the Nile Delta city of Zagazig, where he collapsed and lost consciousness, CPJ reported.

From Washington Times • Sep. 4, 2020

In Zagazig, the Nile Delta city where Mursi has a family home, 80 people were injured.

From Reuters • Jul. 5, 2013

It is vegetables on sale in the market in the Egyptian Delta town of Zagazig on Monday.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2013

Mohammed Morsi, the candidate for the Muslim Brotherhood, gained a PhD at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and from 1985 to 2010 headed the materials-science department at Zagazig University in Egypt.

From Nature • Jun. 27, 2012

"This may assist you in your study of the first Zagazig message."

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