Fayed () is a city in the

Ismailia Governorate Ismailia () is one of the Canal Zone governorates of Egypt. Located in the northeastern part of the country, its capital is the city of Ismailia. It was named after Ismail Pasha, who as Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt, oversaw the country during the bu ...

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

. Its population was estimated at 32,500 people in 2018. The town is located about 20 kilometers south of

Ismailia Ismailia ( ', ) is a city in north-eastern Egypt. Situated on the west bank of the Suez Canal, it is the capital of the Ismailia Governorate. The city had an estimated population of about 1,434,741 according to the statistics issued by the Cen ...

on the western shore of the

Great Bitter Lake The Great Bitter Lake (; transliterated: ''al-Buḥayrah al-Murra al-Kubrā'') is a large saltwater lake in Egypt which is part of the Suez Canal. Before the canal was built in 1869, the Great Bitter Lake was a dry salt valley or basin. Madl, ...

. It is located about halfway along the

Suez Canal The Suez Canal (; , ') is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, Indo-Mediterranean, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia (and by extension, the Sinai Peninsula from the rest ...

. Originally, Fayed was mainly a fishing village; fish from the Bitter Lakes is particularly sought after in Egypt because of its quality and is correspondingly expensive. Agriculture on a larger scale has only returned since the historic Ismailia Canal was dredged and flooded in the course of the construction of the Suez Canal. During

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, several camps for German prisoners of war, members of the German Afrika Korps and units deployed in Italy and Greece, and interned German citizens were located in and around Fayed. The camps were each occupied by up to 15,000 people and known for their bad conditions.

Fayed War Cemetery

Since June 1941, Fayed has been home to a British military cemetery with some 1800 graves for the dead of the garrisons stationed there as well as the German prisoners of the camps. The cemetery is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Among those buried there is former Scotland international footballer Alex Jackson (died 1946, buried as Major A.S. Jackson).

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{{Authority control Populated places in Ismailia Governorate