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| | El-agizy Corporaion // About Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | Jabal Katrinah (2,642 m/8,668 ft), the highest elevation in Egypt, is in the Sinai Peninsula, as is Mount Sinai, where, according to the Old Testament, Moses received the Ten Commandments. |
 | | The chief mineral resource of contemporary value is oil, found mainly in the Red Sea coastal region, at El Alamein on the Mediterranean, and in the Sinai Peninsula. |
 | | Violence continued until 1922, when Britain unilaterally declared Egypt an independent monarchy under Hussein's successor, who became king as Fuad I. The British, however, reserved the right to intervene in Egyptian affairs if their interests were threatened, thereby robbing Egypt of any real independence and allowing British control to continue unabated. |
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