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El Alamein (or Al Alamayn) (Arabic: which means: the two flags) is a town in northern Egypt on the Mediterranean Sea Coast in Matruh Governorate  It is 106 kilometers (66 mi) west of Alexandria and 240 kilometers (149 mi) northwest of Cairo. The population was about 7,397 in 2007.Until recently, it has mainly been a port facility for shipping oil, but like the whole north coast of Egypt is now developing as a luxury resort.

Two important World War ІІ battles were fought in the area:

1. At the First battle of Al Alamein (July 1, - July 27, 1942) the advance of Axis troops on Alexandria was blunted by the Allies, when the German Panzers tried to outflank the allied position

2. At the Second battle of Al Alamein (October 23, - November 4, 1942) Allied forces broke the Axis line and forced them all the way back to Tunisia. Winston Churchill. "This is not the end, nor is it even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." He also wrote "Before Alamein, we had no victory and after it we had no defeats