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  Egypt - Gurupedia
Egypt (Arabic: رمص, romanized Mişr or Maşr, in Egyptian dialect) is an islamic country and the most populous nation of northeastern Africa.
Nearly all the population is concentrated along the River Nile, notably Alexandria and Cairo, and along the Nile Delta and near the Suez Canal.
Egypt borders on Libya on the west, on Sudan on the south and on Israel on the northeast.
www.gurupedia.com /e/eg/egypt.htm   (906 words)

  
 Egypt
Egypt (Arabic: مصر, romanized Mişr or Maşr, in Egyptian dialect) is the most populous nation of northeastern Africa.
Egypt was the first Arab country to establish peace with Israel after the signing of the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty (main point of the Camp David Accords).
Egypt's important role in geopolitics stems from its strategic position: as a land bridge between Africa and Asia, and as a passage between the Mediterranian Sea and the Indian Ocean through the Suez Canal.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/egypt   (1061 words)

  
 Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Arab Republic of Egypt, commonly known as Egypt, (in Arabic: مصر, romanized Misr, or Masr in Egyptian dialect), kemet in Ancient Egyptian, is a republic predominantly in north-eastern Africa, together with the Sinai in southwest Asia.
Egypt is the second most populous country in Africa, and the vast majority of its 77 million population (2005) lives less than a kilometer away from the banks of the River Nile (about 40,000 km²), where the only arable agricultural land is found.
Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world's most stunning ancient monuments, including the Giza Pyramids, the Karnak Temple and the Valley of the Kings; the southern city of Luxor contains a particularly large number of ancient artifacts.
www.toshare.info /en/Egypt.htm   (2140 words)

  
 Africa - Linix Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Egypt was considered part of Asia by the ancients, and first assigned to Africa by the geographer Ptolemy (85 - 165 AD), who accepted Alexandria as Prime Meridian and made the isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea the boundary between Asia and Africa.
Egypt was one of the earliest nation states ever formed.
Egypt has long been a cultural focus of the Arab world, while remembrance of the rhythms of sub-Saharan Africa, in particular west Africa, were transmitted through the Atlantic slave trade to modern blues, jazz, reggae and rock and roll.
web.linix.ca /pedia/index.php/Africa   (3876 words)

  
 egypt airline / Top egypt airline information
Many egypt airline in the Allied countries were flush from lease contracts to the military, and foresaw a future explosive demand for civil air transport, for both passengers and cargo.
Their commercial viability also represented a serious cost threat to employees at legacy egypt airline, as they set the standard for wage rates in the industry that were a fraction of the prevailing wage.
This allows egypt airline to overbook their flights enough to fill the aircraft while accounting for "no-shows," but not enough (in most cases) to force paying passengers off the aircraft for lack of seats.
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 Copt - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Copt
In modern English usage, the word Copt refers to Christian natives of Egypt, in particular members of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
As the chief temple precinct of the capital of Egypt, the name was applied to the entire city of Memphis and ultimately to the country as a whole.
In modern usage, the word "Copt" has become synonymous with the Christian minority of Egypt as some Egyptian Christians claim exclusive, direct ancestry from the Egyptians of Pharaonic times.
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 Egypt - Biocrawler definition:Egypt - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Arab Republic of Egypt, commonly known as Egypt, (in Arabic: مصر, romanized Miṣr or Maṣr, in Egyptian dialect) is a republic mostly located in North-Eastern Africa.
The name Egypt came via the Latin word Aegyptus derived from the ancient Greek word Αίγυπτος "aiguptos", which in turn is derived from the ancient Egyptian phrase ḥwt-k3-ptḥ ("Hut ka Ptah"), the name of a temple of the god Ptah at Memphis.
Egypt operates under a multi-party semi-presidential system where the executive power is divided between the President and the Prime Minister.
www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Egypt   (2117 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Alexandria
Alexandria (in Arabic, Iskenderia) is a city and chief seaport in Egypt on the Mediterranean Sea.
In the Augustan age the population of Alexandria was estimated at 300,000 free folk, in addition to an immense number of slaves.
During the anarchy which accompanied Ottoman rule in Egypt from first to last, Alexandria sank to a small town of about 4,000 inhabitants, and it owed its modern rennaissance solely to Mehemet Ali, who wanted a deep port and naval station for his viceregal domain.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Alexandria   (3221 words)

  
 Egypt (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Egypt (drama) a drama serial on BBC TV, aired in autumn 2005.
This is a disambiguation page — a list of topics associated with the same title.
If an article link referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Egypt_(disambiguation)   (84 words)

  
 Nile - KnowledgeIsFun.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Nile (iteru in Ancient Egyptian) was the lifeline of the ancient Egyptian civilization, with most of the population and all of the cities of Egypt resting along those parts of the Nile valley lying north of Aswan.
Despite the attempts of the Greeks and Romans (who were unable to penetrate the Sudd), the source of the Nile was unknown until the 19th century, when John Hanning Speke was the first to identify it as Lake Victoria.
The cyclic mystery created awe and stimulated worship, and the job of recording the history of Nile flooding, when the Nile was expected to flood, and the locations of farmers' plots after the floodwaters receded stimulated creation of the first scientific instrument (the Nilometer), astronomy, and surveying.
www.knowledgeisfun.com /N/Ni/Nile.php   (1949 words)

  
 napoleone buonaparte   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
An indication of Napoléon's devotion to the principles of the Enlightenment was his decision to take scholars along on his expedition: among the other discoveries that resulted, the Rosetta Stone was translated.
Napoléon's fleet in Egypt was completely destroyed by Nelson at The Battle of the Nile, so that Napoléon became land-bound.
A coalition against France formed in Europe, the royalists rose again, and Napoléon abandoned his troops and returned to Paris in 1799; in November of that year, a coup d'état made him the ruler and military dictator ("First Consul") of France.
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 Cairo - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Cairo is located on the banks and islands of the Nile River in the north of Egypt, immediately south of the point where the river leaves its desert-bound valley and breaks into three branches into the low-lying Nile Delta region.
Napoleon conquered Egypt in 1798, and Cairo was quickly surrendered to him by its Mameluk rulers.
Napoleon left Egypt after his fleet was destroyed at the Battle of Aboukir Bay in August 1798, leaving General Kléber in charge.
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 Season - Biocrawler definition:Season - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
A season is one of the major divisions of the year, generally based on broad climatic patterns.
In tropical and even subtropical regions it is more common to speak of the rainy (or wet, or monsoon) season versus the dry season, as the amount of precipitation may vary more dramatically than the average temperature.
Ancient Egypt divided the year into three seasons, the season of the flood, the season of emergence from the flood, and the hot harvest season.
www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Season   (1268 words)

  
 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
2400 BC) onward he was elevated to the status of a national deity, and much later was combined with the Thebes, Egypt Theban god Amun to become ''Amun-Ra'', the foremost deity of the Egyptian pantheon.
He remained paramount for centuries except for a brief suspension during the time of Akhenaten (1350-1334 BC) when monotheism monotheistic worship of Aten, the sun disk itself, was imposed on the kingdom of Egypt.
In a varying myth, Hathor and Ra (or Tefnut and Shu) once argued, and she left Egypt.
www.mauspfeil.net /ra.html   (819 words)

  
 Israel - Biocrawler definition:Israel - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Gaza Strip was captured by Egypt and came under its control, but Egypt did not annex it.
Moreover, the Egyptian blockade prior to the 1956 Suez War violated the Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone, which was adopted by the UN Conference on the Law of the Sea on April 27, 1958.
Egypt ordered United Nations peacekeeping forces to leave the Sinai, and in their place, Egyptian tanks and troops were concentrated on the border with Israel.
www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Israel   (5315 words)

  
 Egypt ra Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
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the North (Lower Egypt); she was adopted into the family of Ra early in Egyptian...
Ra (sometimes spelled Re) is the sun-god of Heliopolis in ancient Egypt.
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 Exodus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
In a non-literary sense, The Exodus refers to the departure of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt under the leadership of Moses.
An account of the increase and growth of the Israelites in Egypt (ch.
According to the Biblical account, it appears that 600,000 adult Hebrew men left Egypt and travelled with Moses first to Mount Sinai; some 40 years later their descendants invaded the land of Canaan.
www.centipedia.com /index.php?title=Exodus&action=edit   (2186 words)

  
 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
It borders Egypt to the north, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, Kenya and Uganda to the southeast, Congo and the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, and Libya to the northwest.
Religious leader Muhammad ibn Abdalla, the self-proclaimed Mahdi (Messiah), attempted to unify the tribes of western and central Sudan against the British Empire.
Sudan is situated in Northern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Egypt and Eritrea.
www.irelandinformationguide.com /Sudan   (702 words)

  
 Aida   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Ismail Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, commissioned Verdi to write the opera to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, paying him 80,000 francs, but the premiere was delayed because of Franco-Prussian War.
The opera was met with great acclaim when it finally opened at the Ezbekieh National Theater in Cairo and continues to be a staple of the standard operatic repertoire.
The grateful King of Egypt declares him his successor and the betrothed of his daughter.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Aida.htm   (909 words)

  
 Nile - Art History Online Reference and Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
From there the main channel flows north through Egypt and into the Mediterranean Sea; a side channel, the Bahr Yussef, splits from the main channel downriver from the city of Asyut, and empties into the Fayum.
The Nile (iteru in Ancient Egyptian) was the lifeline of the ancient Egyptian civilization, with most of the population and all of the cities of Egypt in the Nile valley.
It still supports much of the population of Egypt, living between otherwise inhospitable regions of the Sahara Desert.
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Nile   (1238 words)

  
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This is a disambiguation Mythology The Roman poet Ovid in the tenth book of his Metamorphoses Belus, was a lonely sculptor who made a woman out of ivory.
Geometric shape formed by connecting A pyramid is a geometric shape formed by connecting a polygonal base and a point called the apex by triangular platonic solids, the tetrahedron Johnson solids dual.
It is the capital of, and is located in the northeast of this governorate, near its border.
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 Egypt at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Egypt (Arabic: مصر, Misr or Masr) is the most populous nation of northeastern Africa.
Egypt's population is over 70 million, and, though considered a low-income country, it has a thriving media and arts industry, with more than 30 satellite channels and more than 100 motion pictures produced a year.
Egypt was the first Arab country to establish peace with Israel after the signing of the Camp David Accords.
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 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Karnak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
El-Karnak is a small village in Egypt, located on the banks of the River Nile some 2.5 km north of Luxor.
In addition there are also a few smaller temples and sanctuaries located outside the enclosing walls of the four main parts, as well as several avenues of ram-headed sphinxes connecting the Precinct of Mut, the Precinct of Amon-Re and Luxor Temple.
The key difference between Karnak and most of the other temples and sites in Egypt is the length of time over which it was developed and used.
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 Israel - Gurupedia
The establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 and its existence has been a source of repeated wars and other conflicts with Arab countries, such as Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt.
The state of war between Egypt and Israel ended with the signing of the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty on March 26, 1979.
In 1967, a perceived hostile buildup of Egyptian soldiers and the Egyptian blockade of the southern city of Eilat led to Israel launching an attack on its neighbors, starting with Egypt.
www.gurupedia.com /i/is/israel.htm   (2608 words)

  
 Krakow Hotels - Online booking system - Travel Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
From Lake Nasser the main channel flows north through Egypt and into the Merranean Sea; a side channel, the Bahr Yussef, splits from the main channel downriver from the city of Asyut, and empties into the Fayum.
Climate change — or perhaps overgrazing — about 8000 BC desiccated the pastoral lands of Egypt to form the Sahara and the tribes naturally migrated to the river, where they developed a settled agricultural economy and more centralized society.
The sudd in the Sudan also forms a formidable obstacle for navigation and flow of water, to the extent that Egypt had once attempted to dig a canal (the Jongeli Cananl) to improve the flow of this stagnant mass of water (also known as Lake No).
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 H Web Directory :: Egypt add link , Free submit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Alexandria, Egypt Alexandria is also known as Al Iskandariyah The native name of Egypt is Misr.
From the 19th century Alexandria took a new role, as a focus for Egypt's commercial and maritime expansion.
The mighty Macedonian, Alexander the Great, came to Egypt after conquering Greece and selected, Alexandria, a small fishing village on the Mediterranean coast...
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 Ptolemy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
For Alexander the Great's general, see Ptolemy I of Egypt.
For others named "Ptolemy" or "Ptolemaeus", see Ptolemy (disambiguation).
165), known in English as Ptolemy, was a Greek geographer, astronomer, and astrologer who probably lived and worked in Alexandria in Egypt.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/P/Ptolemy.htm   (1488 words)

  
 Alexandria - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The most famous is Alexandria in Egypt, which is still a flourishing, cosmopolitan city on the shore of the Eastern Mediterranean, and has with some justification been called Alexander's "most lasting legacy".
This is a disambiguation page, listing pages that might otherwise share the same title.
As the WCD increases, the number of disambiguation pages will also increase.
www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Alexandria   (189 words)

  
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See also Abbey (bank), Abbey Theatre and Abbey, Saskatchewan An abbey (from the Latin abbatia, Syriac abba, "father"), is a Christian monastery or convent, under the government of an Abbot or an Abbess priory prior Renaissance.
In the earliest age of Christian monasticism the ascetics Anthony the Great Maximian, A.D. 312 The real founder of cenobitic (koinos, common, and bios, life) monasteries in the modern sense was Pachomius, an Egyptian of the beginning of the 4th century.
The first community established by him was at Tabennae, an island of the Nile in Upper Egypt The buildings were detached, small and of the humblest character.
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 Take your Money at your Home with National Bank of Egypt national bank of egypt nationalbankofegypt.com
National Bank of Egypt (NBE) is a widespread method of promoting A website, Web site or WWW site (often shortened to just site and sometimes the acronym, w3s) is a collection of webpages, that is, HTML documents accessible via HTTP on the Internet.
The pages of a website will be accessed from a common root URL, the homepage, and usually reside on the same physical server.
Many Internet users hold negative opinions of affiliate programs due to the tendency of their users to use spam Disambiguation: the term SPAM (all capitals) refers to a luncheon meat product by Hormel Foods Corporation.
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