Katia, Egypt

Katia is located in the Egyptian Sinai Desert. The Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta reported that in 1326 on the route to Gaza, the Egyptian authorities had a customs post at katia on the north coast of Sinai. Here Bedouin were being used to guard the road and track down those trying to cross the border without permission.[1] In 1916, the Battle of Katia was fought there between the forces of the British Empire defending the Suez Canal and the invading Ottoman Turkish Empire.[2]

References

  1. ^ Ibn Battuta (1929). Travels in Asia and Africa. 1325–1354. Delhi: Low Price Publications. p. 54. ISBN 81-7536-174-3. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) Translated and selected by H.A.R. Gibb.
  2. ^ Falls 1930, p. 164

30°58′00″N 32°45′00″E / 30.96667°N 32.75000°E / 30.96667; 32.75000


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