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| | Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | Egypt (Arabic: romanized Mi?r, in Egyptian Arabic Már), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a Middle Eastern country in North Africa. |
 | | Covering an area of about 1,001,450 square kilometers (386,560 square miles), Egypt borders Libya to the west, Sudan to the south, and Israel and the Gaza Strip to the northeast; on the north and the east are the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, respectively. |
 | | After the end of the French Invasion of Egypt in 1801, a series of civil wars took place between the Ottoman Turks, the Mamelukes, and Albanian mercenaries resulting in the Albanian Muhammad Ali taking control of Egypt where he was appointed as the Ottoman viceroy in 1805. |
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