Matruh

Later that night, three infantrymen from the Suffolk Regiment, who had seen the plane come down some two miles west of their base in Mersah Matruh, went out to inspect the wreckage and found the injured pilot, barely conscious, but still alive.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

“Eighty Squadron are now there,” the officer declared, pointing to a spot called Sidi Heneish in the middle of the Libyan Plateau 30 miles south of Mersah Matruh, another small coastal town on the edge of the Mediterranean.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

Surface water was the source for 83% of the irrigated area in 2000, while 11% (361,176 ha) of the area was irrigated with groundwater in the provinces of Matruh, Sinai, and New Valley.

Water profile of Egypt 2008

Rainwater harvesting is practiced in about 133,500 ha in Matruh and North Sinai.

Water profile of Egypt 2008

Water harvesting (Matruh and Northern Sinai) is possible thanks to the construction of cisterns and diversion dikes.

Water profile of Egypt 2008

Paraetonium Thought to be modern Mersa Matruh, in western Egypt.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Lights flickered on the horizon now, the town of Marsa Matruh was just ahead, and I was thinking of the night before.

Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007

Lights flickered on the horizon now, the town of Marsa Matruh was just ahead, and I was thinking of the night before.

Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007

Paraetonium Thought to be modern Mersa Matruh, in western Egypt.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Lights flickered on the horizon now, the town of Marsa Matruh was just ahead, and I was thinking of the night before.

Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007