Egypt (Arabic : مصر Miṣr [ mesˁr] ⓘ , Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ mɑsˤr] ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt , is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula . It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north , the Gaza Strip of Palestine and Israel to the northeast , the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south , and Libya to the west ; the Gulf of Aqaba in the northeast separates Egypt from Jordan and Saudi Arabia . Cairo is the capital, largest city , and leading cultural center, while Alexandria is the second-largest city and an important hub of industry and tourism. With over 107 million inhabitants, Egypt is the third-most populous country in Africa and 15th-most populated in the world .
Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country, tracing its heritage along the Nile Delta back to the 6th–4th millennia BCE. Considered a cradle of civilisation , Ancient Egypt saw some of the earliest developments of writing, agriculture, urbanisation, organised religion and central government. Egypt was an early and important centre of Christianity , later adopting Islam from the seventh century onwards. Cairo became the capital of the Fatimid Caliphate in the tenth century and of the subsequent Mamluk Sultanate in the 13th century. Egypt then became part of the Ottoman Empire in 1517, until its local ruler Muhammad Ali established modern Egypt as an autonomous Khedivate in 1867. The country was then occupied by the British Empire along with Sudan and gained independence in 1922 as a monarchy .
Egypt is a developing country with the second-largest economy in Africa . It is considered to be a regional power in the Middle East, North Africa and the Muslim world , and a middle power worldwide. Islam is the official religion and Arabic is official language. Egypt is a founding member of the United Nations, the Non-Aligned Movement , the Arab League , the African Union , Organisation of Islamic Cooperation , World Youth Forum , and a member of BRICS . (Full article... )
A map of the short-lived
Palmyrene Empire at its zenith shortly after the invasion of Egypt
The Palmyrene invasion of Egypt occurred in the summer, or possibly in October, of 270 AD when the forces of Queen Zenobia of Palmyra , led by her general Zabdas and aided by an Egyptian general named Timagenes, invaded and subsequently annexed Egypt , which was under control of the Roman Empire at the time.
The invasion of Egypt is sometimes explained by Zenobia's desire to secure an alternative trade route to the Euphrates , which was cut because of the war with the Sasanian Empire , although the Euphrates route was only partially disrupted. Zenobia's personal ambition and political motivation to establish Palmyrene dominance over the east definitely played a part in her decision to invade Egypt. (Full article... )
The following are images from various Egypt-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 Menna and Family Hunting in the Marshes, Tomb of Menna,
c. 1400 BC (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 3 Egyptian President
Gamal Abdel Nasser in Mansoura, 1960 (from
Egypt )
Image 4 Egypt's population density (people per km
2 ) (from
Egypt )
Image 5 The Weighing of the Heart from the
Book of the Dead of Ani (from
Egypt )
Image 6 Egypt's topography (from
Egypt )
Image 7 Hieroglyphs on stela in
Louvre ,
c. 1321 BC (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 8 Ancestry model of Egyptian genome
NUE001 from Nuwayrat (2855–2570 BC). (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 10 Wooden figures of soldiers, from the tomb of nomarch
Mesehti (
11th dynasty ) (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 11 Anubis , the god associated with mummification and burial rituals, attending to a mummy (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 12 Naguib Mahfouz , the first Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (from
Egypt )
Image 13 Lower-class occupations (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 14 The Ptolemaic Queen
Cleopatra VII and her son by Julius Caesar,
Caesarion , at the
Temple of Dendera (from
Egypt )
Image 16 Pharaohs' tombs were provided with vast quantities of wealth, such as the
golden mask from the mummy of Tutankhamun . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 17 Tourists riding a
camel in front of
Pyramid of Khafre . The
Giza Necropolis is one of Egypt's main tourist attractions. (from
Egypt )
Image 18 Arabic calligraphy has seen its golden age in
Cairo . This adornment and beads being sold in
Muizz Street (from
Culture of Egypt )
Image 19 Tutankhamun's burial mask is one of the major attractions of the
Egyptian Museum of Cairo. (from
Egypt )
Image 20 Sennedjem plows his fields in
Aaru with a pair of oxen,
Deir el-Medina . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 22 British infantry near
El Alamein , 17 July 1942 (from
Egypt )
Image 23 Al-Azhar Park is listed as one of the world's sixty great public spaces by the
Project for Public Spaces . (from
Egypt )
Image 24 A figure wearing the red crown of Lower Egypt, most probably
Amenemhat II or
Senwosret II (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 26 Egyptian honour guard soldiers (from
Egypt )
Image 27 Ancient Egyptians playing music (from
Egypt )
Image 28 A tomb relief depicts workers plowing the fields, harvesting the crops, and threshing the grain under the direction of an overseer, painting in the tomb of
Nakht . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 29 Soad Hosny , film star (from
Egypt )
Image 30 The well preserved Temple of Isis from
Philae is an example of
Egyptian architecture and
architectural sculpture . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 31 Hosni Mubarak —president of Egypt from 1981 to 2011 (from
Egypt )
Image 32 The
Narmer Palette depicts the unification of the Two Lands. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 33 The
Qattara Depression in Egypt's north west (from
Egypt )
Image 34 The
Egyptian Museum of Cairo (from
Egypt )
Image 35 Smoke rises from oil tanks beside the
Suez Canal hit during the initial
Anglo-French assault on Egypt, 5 November 1956. (from
Egypt )
Image 36 Hunting game birds and plowing a field, tomb of
Nefermaat and his wife
Itet (
c. 2700 BC) (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 37 Artifacts of Egypt from the prehistoric period, from 4400 to 3100 BC. First row from top left: a
Badarian ivory figurine, a
Naqada II jar, a
Bat figurine. Second row: a
diorite vase, the
Gebel el-Arak Knife , a
cosmetic palette . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 38 Egyptian tanks advancing in the Sinai desert during the
Yom Kippur War , 1973 (from
Egypt )
Image 39 Napoleon defeated the
Mamluk troops in the
Battle of the Pyramids , 21 July 1798, painted by
Lejeune . (from
Egypt )
Image 40 Illustration of various types of capitals, by
Karl Richard Lepsius (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 42 The Cairo Metro (line 2) (from
Egypt )
Image 43 Egyptians celebrated feasts and festivals, accompanied by music and dance. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 44 The preserved Temple of Horus at Edfu is a model of Egyptian architecture. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 45 Egyptian
tomb models as funerary goods (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 47 Frontispiece of
Description de l'Égypte , published in 38 volumes between 1809 and 1829 (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 48 Rectangular fishpond with ducks and
lotus planted round with date palms and fruit trees,
Tomb of Nebamun , Thebes, 18th Dynasty (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 49 An offshore platform in the Darfeel Gas Field (from
Egypt )
Image 50 A crowd at Cairo Stadium watching the
Egypt national football team (from
Egypt )
Image 51 Cairo grew into a
metropolitan area with a population of over 22 million. (from
Egypt )
Image 52 Aziz Pasha Abaza , poet from the aristocratic literary Egyptian family the
House of Abaza of
Circassian Abazin origin (from
Culture of Egypt )
Image 53 Measuring and recording the harvest, from the tomb of
Menna at
Thebes (Eighteenth Dynasty) (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 54 Ruins of Deir el-Medina (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 55 The "weighing of the heart" scene from the
Book of the Dead (from
Egypt )
Image 56 Hatshepsut's trading expedition to the
Land of Punt (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 57 Female nationalists demonstrating in
Cairo , 1919 (from
Egypt )
Image 58 The
Amr ibn al-As mosque in Cairo, recognised as the oldest in Africa (from
Egypt )
Image 59 The
Fayum mummy portraits epitomize the meeting of Egyptian and Roman cultures. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 60 Tutankhamun charging enemies on his
chariot , 18th dynasty (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 61 Protesters from the Third Square movement, which supported neither the former Morsi government nor the Armed Forces, 31 July 2013 (from
Egypt )
Image 62 The
Edwin Smith surgical papyrus describes anatomy and medical treatments, written in
hieratic ,
c. 1550 BC. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 63 The
Al-Hakim Mosque in Cairo, of
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah , the sixth caliph, as renovated by
Dawoodi Bohra (from
Egypt )
Image 65 Green irrigated land along the Nile amidst the desert and in the
Nile Delta (from
Egypt )
Image 67 The High Court of Justice in
Downtown Cairo (from
Egypt )
Image 68 Kushari , one of Egypt's national dishes (from
Egypt )
Image 69 Change in per capita GDP of Egypt, 1820–2018. Figures are inflation-adjusted to 2011 International dollars. (from
Egypt )
Image 71 Egypt under Muhammad Ali dynasty (from
Egypt )
Image 72 The gods
Osiris ,
Anubis , and
Horus in the tomb of Horemheb (
KV57 ) in the Valley of the Kings (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 73 The central business district in Egypt's
new capital (from
Egypt )
Image 74 Tanoura dancers performing in Wekalet El Ghoury, Cairo (from
Egypt )
Image 76 Soad Hosny , Egyptian film star. Among the most famous Egyptian and Arabic actresses. (from
Culture of Egypt )
Image 78 Muhammad Ali was the founder of the
Muhammad Ali dynasty and the first
Khedive of Egypt and Sudan. (from
Egypt )
Image 79 A painted, wooden figure of Tutankhamun found in his royal tomb (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 80 Salah Zulfikar , film star (from
Egypt )
Image 81 Glassmaking was a highly developed art. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 85 Statues of two pharaohs of Egypt's
Twenty-Fifth Dynasty and several other
Kushite kings,
Kerma Museum (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 86 Temple of Derr ruins in 1960 (from
Egypt )
Image 87 The
Book of the Dead was a guide to the deceased's journey in the afterlife. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 88 Graphic of the increase in temperature in Egypt overtime (from
Egypt )
Image 89 The fully electric
MCV C127 EV, made in Egypt for the German market (from
Egypt )
Image 90 The
Eastern Imperial Eagle is the national animal of Egypt. (from
Egypt )
Image 91 Seagoing ship of an expedition to Punt, from a relief of
Hatshepsut's Mortuary temple , Deir el-Bahari (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 92 Model of a household porch and garden,
c. 1981–1975 BC (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 93 The
Temple of Dendur , completed by 10 BC,
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 94 Painted limestone relief of a noble member of Ancient Egyptian society during the New Kingdom (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 95 The
Giza Necropolis is the oldest of the
ancient Wonders and the only one still in existence. (from
Egypt )
Image 96 Egyptian literacy rate among the population aged 15 years and older by UNESCO Institute of Statistics (from
Egypt )
Isma'il Pasha (Arabic : إسماعيل باشا Ismā‘īl Bāshā ; 25 November 1830 or 31 December 1830 – 2 March 1895), also known as Ismail the Magnificent , was the Khedive of Egypt and ruler of Sudan from 1863 to 1879, when he was removed at the behest of Great Britain and France . Sharing the ambitious outlook of his grandfather, Muhammad Ali Pasha , he greatly modernized Egypt and Sudan during his reign, investing heavily in industrial and economic development , urbanization , and the expansion of the country's boundaries in Africa .
His philosophy can be glimpsed in a statement that he made in 1879: "My country is no longer only in Africa; we are now part of Europe , too. It is therefore natural for us to abandon our former ways and to adopt a new system adapted to our social conditions". (Full article... )
Rumi cheese (Egyptian Arabic : جبنه رومى gebna Rumi [ ˈɡebnæ ˈruːmi] , also spelled roumi/roomi ) is one of the main types of cheese in Egypt . Despite its name (Rūmī , literally "Roman"), the cheese is Egyptian. It has a pungent smell, and different degrees of saltiness depending on the age.
It is also known, e.g. in the United Arab Emirates, as Ras cheese . (Full article... )
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