Kafr El Dawar is an important industrial city in
El Beheira
governorate that comprises of a number of smaller towns and villages . It is renowned for electricity generation as well as textile and fruit packing industries . It is a city of a great history because its lands witnessed a famous battle in Egyptian history which is Kafr El-Dawar Battle that took place between the Egyptian army headed by Ahmed Orabi and the British army during the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War . The battle ended with Orabi meeting with victory over the British who had to retire their troops from
Alexandria
. Changing their strategy , the English later attacked
Egypt
from the East , in the
Suez Canal
area , and succeeded in beating Orabi's army in El Tell El Kebir .
In the vicinity of the city , there are a great number of ancient cemeteries like: Kom El-Hag , Kom Ishu , Kom El-Farag , Kom El-Mahar , Sidi Ghazi , Kom Defshu , Kom El-Terfayeh , Kom El-Dahab , Kom Mazen , Kom El-Qadi , Tell El-Kanaies , Kom El-Giza , Kom El-Hamam and Tell Sherif Khalaf . In all these areas there can only be found remains of pottery and some rocks from
the Ptolemaic Era .
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