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Muhammad Said
* 1822 in Cairo
+ 1863 in Alexandria
Mohamed Sa'id Pasha was
the Wāli (governor) of Egypt and Sudan
from 1854 until 1863.
The Mediterranean port of Port Said is
named after him.
In 1854 the first act of concession of
land for the Suez Canal was granted, to a
French businessman Ferdinand de Lesseps.
2021 J. Giesen