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  King Farouk Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
King Farouk - Farouk I. Farouk, the son of King Fuad, was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1920.
A King Betrayed: The Ill-Fated Reign of Farouk of Egypt by Adel Sabit...
Farouk on Encyclopedia.com - Faroukf??????rook', 1920-65, king of Egypt (1936-52), son and successor of Fuad I. After a short regency he acceded (1937) to the throne.
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  Farouk of Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His Majesty King Farouk of Egypt (Arabic: فاروق الاول) ‎ (February 11, 1920 – March 18, 1965) was the penultimate King of Egypt, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1936.
His full title was "H.M. Farouk I, by the grace of God, King of Egypt and of Sudan, Sovereign of Nubia, of Kordofan and of Darfur".
The King's alleged corruption in Egypt and defeat during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, led to a military coup on July 23, 1952, directed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, who forced Farouk to abdicate and exiled him to Italy and Monaco, where the former king lived the rest of his life.
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 Fuad II of Egypt - Biocrawler definition:Fuad II of Egypt - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
King Fuad II of Egypt and The Sudan (Ahmed Fuad) was born on 16 January, 1952).
King Fuad II was less than a year old at the time of his ascension to the throne, thus, he was never formally crowned.
King Farouk had hoped that his abdication would appease the anti-royalist forces in the country, and that the baby king could serve as a unifying force for Egypt.
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 AWR: Global Glimpse - Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Pharaohs, the Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs, the Turks and the British have all ruled Egypt, and modern Egypt is an amalgam of these legacies and the influences of Islam and the 20th century.
Egypt's "Golden Age" coincided with the 18th and 19th dynasties (16th to 13th century B.C.), during which the empire was established.
Egypt borders Libya in the west, Sudan in the south, the Mediterranean Sea in the north, and the Red Sea and Israel in the east.
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 Queen Nariman Sadeq; ex-wife of Egypt's late King Farouk; 70 | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Queen Nariman Sadeq; ex-wife of Egypt's late King Farouk; 70
Egypt's former Queen Nariman Sadeq, the ex-wife of the late King Farouk, died Feb. 16.
She gave birth to Farouk's heir, Ahmed Fouad, in 1952, six months before the monarchy was overthrown by the military in July.
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 Encyclopedia: King Farouk I of Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
His sister, Fawzia of Egypt was Empress of Iran for a brief period.¨His full title was "H.M. Faruk I, by the grace of God, King of Egypt and of Sudan, Sovereign of Nubia, of Kordofan and of Darfur"
In addition to an affair with the British writer and siren Barbara Skelton, among numerous others, the king was married twice.
His first wife was Safinaz Zulficar (1921-1988), a pasha's daughter who was renamed Farida upon her marraige; they married in 1938, divorced in 1948, and had three daughters.
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 King Farouk I
When King Fouad, his father died, Farouk was still under age, and accordingly a regency council was formed of Prince Mohammad Ali, Aziz Ezzat Pasha and Sherif Sabry Pasha to run the scene until his constitutional powers were completely handed over to him on July 29, 1937.
During his reign, Egypt was in a state of incomplete independence and suffered from chaos and corruption.
On July 23, 1952, the revolution erupted and King Farouk was forced to abdicate the throne to his son Ahmed Fouad II who was a child then.
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 Farouk of Egypt -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
King Farouk of Egypt (February 11, 1920 – March 18, 1965) was the penultimate (Click link for more info and facts about King of Egypt) King of Egypt, succeeding his father, (Click link for more info and facts about Fuad I) Fuad I, in 1936.
Immediately following Farouk's abdication the monarch's baby son, (Click link for more info and facts about Fuad II) Fuad II, was proclaimed king, but for all intents and purposes the monarchy had been (Click link for more info and facts about de facto) de facto abolished.
In 1953 it was formally abolished and a (A form of government whose head of state is not a monarch) republic was declared.
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 King Farouk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Farouk, not being happy with a common two bedroom stucco, financed expansive home improvements (which included a second story addition built without removing the old roof) and overbuilt the place for the neighborhood.
One of my greatest joys as a teenager was watching for Farouk in his front yard when pulling up to my house, rolling the windows down and blasting some rock station that I had specifically tuned for his benefit (I normally only listened to KFAC, the classical station).
Historical note: King Farouk I of Egypt lived from 1920 to 1965, and was widely unpopular due to his ego, wasteful, imperious ways and enormous girth.
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 REGENT FACTS AND INFORMATION
In Iceland, the regent represented the King of Denmark as sovereign of Iceland until the country became a republic in 1944.
In the Polish-Lithuanian_Commonwealth kings were elected, which often led to relatively long interregna periods.
It was the Polish primate who served as a regent, known at that time as an interrex (ruler between kings, as in ancient Rome).
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 King Farouk
King of Egypt Farouk was born in 1920.
Farouk failed at attempted reform, and his popularity plummeted.
His reign was marked by corruption, and he was branded an ineffectual leader, losing the support of the military after Egypt's poor showing in its 1948 war with Israel.
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 Amazon.ca: Books: Too Rich: The High Life and Tragic Death of King Farouk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Egypt's King Farouk (1920-1965), organizer of the Arab League which attacked Israel in 1948, often regarded as a corrupt, sybaritic, hypersexed autocrat, is grossly misperceived in the West, maintains Stadiem in this glitzy, unconvincing biography.
Farouk has been unfairly portrayed as a friend of the Third Reich, claims the author, arguing that the king's German sympathies were strictly a function of Anglophobia, not of anti-Semitism, and pointing to Farouk's many Jewish friends, advisers and mistresses.
Becoming king in 1920 at the age of 16 under the mindful control of various domestic Egyptian groups and the dominating power of Great Britain, Farouk ruled during a turbulent time in Egyptian and Middle East history that was marked by the creation of the Arab League, the first Arab-Israeli conflict, and heated...
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 Cadillac King Farouk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
This very special Cadillac was produced for Ex-King Farouk of Egypt.
The height of the tailfins was cut down, therefore they were lengthened, and the car got a special targa-like top.
These photos were taken at the Cadillac Meet of 1994, in Switzerland.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Nasser was born in Alexandria, the son of a postal official.
As others perceive it, his policy was one of forceful militarism that led Egypt to grave defeats and losses rather than peace and prosperity.
Nasser's negative achievement was making Egypt into a police state, where mail was opened, the press was censored and the political enemies were sent to concentration camps in the desert.
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 Al-Ahram Weekly | Egypt | Death of a princess
King Farouk's youngest daughter was buried in Cairo this week.
Princess Fadia, the youngest daughter of late King Farouk, Egypt's last monarch, was in the midst of preparations for a New Year's Eve family gathering she was set to host at her home in Switzerland, when she died suddenly on 28 December.
Their mother, Queen Farida, King Farouk's first wife, remained in Egypt for at least 10 years after the revolution, before moving first to Lebanon then to Switzerland, where she joined her girls.
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 Writers Corner - Numismatic Gumshoe: On the Trail of King Farouk
King Farouk the First of Egypt, who reigned from 1936 until 1952, was a prolific collector.
When all was said and done, King Farouk had amassed one of the largest, most important collections of coins in the history of numismatics.
After the Egyptian military forced King Farouk to flee the country in 1952, the American coin dealers had a great interest in what was to become of the Farouk Collection.
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 king farouk gold coins
king farouk gold coins Although at a quick look, gold bars may seem the cheapest way to invest on physical gold, there are some points worth noting, and some drawbacks.
King when made most of his coin purchases in the 1940s, in an era Farouk a numismatic.
King Farouk was one of the greatest coin collectors of all time.
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 Farouk on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
A constitutional monarch, Farouk was frequently at odds with the Wafd, the largest Egyptian party.
Farouk was forced to abdicate; he fled the country and found refuge abroad.
Rafiq Hariri et Farouk Qaddoumi Farouk Kaddoumi, dans une intervention tranchant avec l'atmopshère de détente générale, a.
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 Gamal Abdel Nasser : Abdul Nasser
Nasser was born in Alexandria and was active in Egyptian groups against foreign domination, while a graduate of the Military Academy.
He participated in the 1948 war against Israel in the rank of a major; for several months at the war's end he was trapped in the so called "Faluja pocket", together with his men.
Attempts were also made to include Yemen, but the United Arab Republic was dissolved in 1961, though Egypt used the name until 1971.
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 Al-Ahram Weekly | Heritage | Farouk's coin lost to Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The coin Egypt has now failed to recover is a $20 Double Eagle coin, one of the great treasures of Farouk's impressive antiquities and coin collection.
Sotheby's, acting on behalf of the new Republic of Egypt, was in charge of selling the astonishing collection assembled by the dethroned monarch, who was one of the most enthusiastic coin collectors of all time.
Now that Egypt has been unable to retrieve the coin its new, unnamed owner will be given an official Certificate of Transfer which makes it legally his.
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 Regent Palace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In the case of Finland and Hungary, military officers served as regents in the absence of a monarch, while in Iceland, the regent represented the King of Denmark as sovereign of Iceland until the country became a republic in 1944.
Hatshepsut of Egypt for Thutmose III of Egypt
Prince Regent in the UK This title is normally associated with King George IV of the United Kingdom, who held it during the incapacity of his father, King George III (see Regent for other regents).
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 Daily Telegraph (London, England): Adel Sabit; Cousin of King Farouk who wrote of Egypt before Nasser.(News)@ HighBeam ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
ADEL SABIT, who has died in Cairo aged 82, was a courtier of the late King Farouk of Egypt; having survived the upheavals of revolution, he spent the latter part of his life chronicling the glamour of a bygone era.
"I well remember," he wrote in A King Betrayed, his nostalgic memoir of life with the ill-starred monarch, "the obsequiousness of elderly pashas, including an ex-Prime Minister, when, after a large lunch, the King knocked their fezzes off their heads with well-aimed tomatoes and cucumbers."
Through his mother, Sabit was a second cousin of King Farouk, and from...
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 The Jews of Egypt
Then, Egypt was overrun by wave after wave of invaders: the Greeks, the Romans, the crusaders, the Arabs, the Turks, the French and the British.
Egypt’s King Fuad was protective of the Jewish community.
They did …Egypt claimed victory…The U.N. forces came, and one of the consequences of the Suez War was: the beginning of the end of the Jewish community in Egypt.
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 About Egypt, an Overview of Egypt
Egypt is probably the world's oldest civilization having emerged from the Nile Valley around 3,100 BC, historically.
Egypt's balance-of-payments position was not hurt by the war in Iraq in 2003, as tourism and Suez Canal revenues fared well.
Egypt and Sudan retain claims to administer the triangular areas that extend north and south of the 1899 Treaty boundary along the 22nd Parallel, but have withdrawn their military presence - Egypt is economically developing and effectively administers the "Hala'ib triangle" north of the Treaty line
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 Numismatic Articles
Kosoff had devoted an entire chapter to "The Farouk Story," which described the famous Palace Collections of Egypt coin auction, featuring the numismatic collection of the former King Farouk of Egypt, that took place at Koubbeh Palace, Cairo, in February and March 1954.
King Farouk made most of his coin purchases in the 1940s, in an era when a numismatic dollar (and an Egyptian pound) went a long way.
As I was in pursuit of one of the King Farouk pieces, I could not resist once again comparing this adventure to the 1954 trip to Cairo.
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 Greetings from the Land of Farouk and Fardia!1932
As weddings go King Farouk’s wedding was not much but nevertheless it was an especially interesting one, partly due to the youth of the bride and groom and partly to the fact that the wedding ceremony was performed according to the Moslem rites.
In consequence the King’s bride was a frequent visitor at the Palace and a close friend of the Royal Princesses, the King’s sisters, and was with them in Europe during the King’s travels last year.
The King is of Albanian blood, was born in February 1920, is large for his age, handsome, bright, well educated, gracious, friendly, has a mind of his own, and knows what he wants.
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 Politics & Policies: Egypt's contradiction - (United Press International)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Cairo, Egypt, Jun. 9 (UPI) -- The harmonious call to prayer from the nearby mosque clashed with the melody of an Arabic music band playing popular songs in a luxurious Cairo hotel.
The Kifaya movement is another example of Egypt's intermingling cultures and traditions.
With unemployment in Egypt running at 15 percent, according to the government, 20 percent according to foreign diplomatic sources, and an additional 600,000 to 700,700 new job seekers hitting the market every year, the government faces serious social and economic woes.
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 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
His first wife was Princess Fawzia of Egypt (born November 5, 1921), a celebrated beauty of her day, daughter of King Fuad I of Egypt and his second spouse, Nazli Sabri, and a sister of King Farouk I of Egypt.
They married in 1939 and divorced in 1948 after her failure to produce an heir to the throne (although later she did in fact have a son with her second husband).
Fawzia was extremely unhappy at the Iranian court and longed to return to Egypt, which she did shortly before the fall of her brother and the abolition of the Egyptian monarchy.
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