Ismailia, a small town on Lake Timsah, through which the Suez Canal passes. It stands on the railway from Cairo to Suez and on the Sweet Water Canal. During the construction of the canal it was the headquarters of the work, having been founded in 1863, but it is now a place of only 1850 inhabitants.—The name Ismailia was also given to Gondokoro (q.v.) on the White Nile.
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