In this sense, did the twenty-first century really begin in 1956? On July 26 of that year, Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal Company and unilaterally assumed control of the canal, displacing the ...

The idea of a canal in this region has existed since the seventh century BC, but it was not until the late 1890s that it was finally completed - the Suez Canal, meanwhile, was completed in 1869.

The Suez Canal is a major thouroughfare for much of ... Instead, ships sail through the oceanic highway, which was built in the 19th century, from the Red Sea into the Mediterranean.

They first emerged in the late 19th century. Ambitious Russian engineers ... bypassing the Turkish Straits and Egypt's Suez Canal. But political crises and revolutions in both countries had ...