ISMAILIA, a town of Lower Egypt, on the north-west shore of Lake Timsah, a salt lagoon, about so m. from the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and 93 m. N.E. of Cairo by rail. Population about 10,000. It was laid out in 1863, in connection with the construction of the canal, and is named after the khedive Ismail. Ismailia was the scene of the first scientific attack upon malaria, by the extinction of the anopheles mosquito. The town is well laid
out. At the end of the quay are works supplying Port Said with water. On the other side of the lake are the so-called Quarries of the Hyenas, from which the building material for the town was obtained. It was an important headquarters for the Allied forces during 1916.