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Gulf of Aqaba
The Gulf of Aqaba is the north-eastern arm of the Red Sea, between the Sinai Peninsula and the Arabian Peninsula, bordered today by Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. In antiquity it gave the Levant access to the Red Sea trade through ports such as Ezion-Geber, and Egypt's closure of the Straits of Tiran in 1967 helped bring on the Six-Day War.
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