Zagazig Zagazig Zagazig ( "" , , ) is a city in Lower Egypt. Situated in the eastern part of the Nile delta, it is the capital of the governorate of Sharqia. In 1999, its population was approximately 279,000, which increased to 529100 in 2018. It is built on a branch of the Sweet Water Canal and on al-Muˤizz Canal (the ancient Tanaitic channel of the Nile), and is 47 miles by rail north-northeast of Cairo. Situated on the Nile Delta in the midst of a fertile district, Zagazig is a centre of the cotton and grain trade of Egypt. It
African Americans in New York City is now Central Park of Manhattan and Sandy Ground on Staten Island, and Weeksville in Brooklyn. These communities were among the earliest The city was a nerve center for the abolitionist movement in the United States. At least 120 people were killed in the violence, with eleven African-American men being lynched by Irish immigrants over the course of five days and fifty buildings in predominantly-African areas being burned to the ground. It resulted in the mass migration of African-Americans from Manhattan to Brooklyn, and was followed by the asserting of power in the city by the growing white working class