Warrada

Warrada was a stopping place on the northern Sinai road between Qatya and Arish, near the southeastern side of the Bardawil lagoon. Medieval travellers and geographers noted it on the route between Egypt and Palestine. In 1171 the statesman al-Qadi al-Fadil visited its mosque and recorded an inscription on the minaret dated 1017, bearing the name of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim. The settlement stood among the sands and lagoons of the Mediterranean coast.