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'''El Tor''' ({{lang-ar|الطور}} ''{{transl|ar|ALA|aṭ-Ṭūr}} / {{transl|arz|et-Ṭūr }}'' {{IPA-arz|etˈtˤuːɾ}}), also [[Romanization|romanized]] as ''Al-Tur'' and ''At-Tur'' and known as ''Tur Sinai'', formerly '''Raithu''', is a small city and the [[seat of government]]capital of the [[South Sinai Governorate]] of [[Egypt]]. The name of the city comes from the Arabic term for the mountain where the prophet [[Moses]] received the [[Tablets of Stone|Tables of the Law]] from God; this mountain is designated ''Jabal Al Tor''.
 
The [[El Tor]] strain of [[cholera]] was discovered there in 1905. It was a [[quarantine]] camp for Muslim pilgrims returning from [[Hajj]] (the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca).