aboukir

/AH0 B AW1 K ER0/
noun
  1. 1

    A bay outside this village, at the mouth of the Nile, where on 1 August 1798 a British fleet led by Horatio Nelson defeated the French in the Battle of the Nile.

  2. 2

    A village on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt which contains several ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman structures.