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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

Sir Burnham and Lady Coverly, having arrived at Port Said, were proceeding by rail to Cairo when an accident farther up the line necessitated their breaking their journey at Zagazig.

From The Green Eyes of Bâst by Rohmer, Sax