Egypt
Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia. 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 and largest city of Egypt, while Alexandria, the second-largest city, is an important industrial and tourist hub at the Mediterranean coast. At approximately 100 million inhabitants, Egypt is the 14th-most populated country in the world, and the third-most populated in Africa.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 Mamluk Sultanate in the 13th century. Egypt then became part of the Ottoman Empire in 1517, before its local ruler Muhammad Ali established modern Egypt as an autonomous Khedivate in 1867.
The country was then occupied by the British Empire and gained independence in 1922 as a monarchy. Following the 1952 revolution, Egypt declared itself a republic. For a brief period between 1958 and 1961 Egypt merged with Syria to form the United Arab Republic. Egypt fought several armed conflicts with Israel in 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973, and occupied the Gaza Strip intermittently until 1967. In 1978, Egypt signed the Camp David Accords, which recognised Israel in exchange for its withdrawal from the occupied Sinai. After the Arab Spring, which led to the 2011 Egyptian revolution and overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the country faced a protracted period of political unrest; this included the election in 2012 of a brief, short-lived Muslim Brotherhood-aligned Islamist government spearheaded by Mohamed Morsi, and its subsequent overthrow after mass protests in 2013.
Egypt's current government, a semi-presidential republic led by president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi since he was elected in 2014, has been described by a number of watchdogs as authoritarian and responsible for perpetuating the country's poor human rights record. Islam is the official religion of Egypt, and Arabic is its official language. The great majority of its people live near the banks of the Nile River, an area of about , where the only arable land is found. The large regions of the Sahara desert, which constitute most of Egypt's territory, are sparsely inhabited. About 43% of Egypt's residents live across the country's urban areas, with most spread across the densely populated centres of greater Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities in the Nile Delta. Egypt is considered to be a regional power in North Africa, the Middle East and the Muslim world, and a middle power worldwide. It is a developing country having a diversified economy, which is the largest in Africa, the 38th-largest economy by nominal GDP and 127th by nominal GDP per capita. 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. Provided by Wikipedia
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Ballistic. Vol. 1 by Mortimer, Adam Egypt
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The Pharaoh Ne-Ouser-Ra and his little slave girl. by Chivékiar, princess of Egypt
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James Weldon Johnson. by Egypt, Ophelia Settle
New York, Crowell 1974Call Number: Loading…
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Bilādī. by Chivékiar, Princess of Egypt
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Ballistic. [Volume 1] by Mortimer, Adam Egypt
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Social welfare in Egypt. by Francis, René (Writer on Egypt)
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Ḥujjat waqf al-ashraf Barsbāy. by Barsbāy, Sultan of Egypt, -1438
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Egyptian aesthetics. by Francis, René (Writer on Egypt)
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Egypt in evolution : a great tradition handed down from precedent to precedent. by Francis, René (Writer on Egypt)
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Revenue laws of Ptolemy Philadelphus. by Ptolemy II Philadelphus, King of Egypt
Oxford : The Clarendon press, 1896“…Egypt…”
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Keep calm...it's just real estate : your no-stress guide to buying a home by Sherrod, Egypt, Garland, Amber Noble
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Keep calm-- it's just real estate your no-stress guide to buying a home by Sherrod, Egypt, Garland, Amber Noble
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Keep calm-- it's just real estate : your no-stress guide to buying a home by Sherrod, Egypt, Garland, Amber Noble
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Farīdah, Malikat Miṣr : tarwī asrār al-ḥubb wa-al-ḥukm. by Farīdah, Queen of Egypt, 1921-1988
Al-Qāhirah : Dār al-Shurūq, 1993
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The last Khedive of Egypt : memoirs of Abbas Hilmi II by ʻAbbās II, Khedive of Egypt, 1874-1944
Reading, UK : Ithaca Press, 1998
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Mubādarat al-salām al-wāqiʻīyah al-jadīdah. by Egypt Hayʼah al-ʻĀmmah lil-Istiʻlāmāt
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al-Islām wa-al-tamyīz al-ʻunṣurī. by Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1137-1193
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Wathīqat ʻahd al-Sulṭān al-Muʼayyad Abī al-Fatḥ Aḥmad ibn al-Malik al-Ashraf Abī Naṣr Aynāl al-ʻAlāʼī al-Ẓāhirī by Ashraf Aynāl, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, -1461
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A few words on the Anglo-Egyptian settlement. by ʻAbbās II, Khedive of Egypt, 1874-1944
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The literature of Egypt and the Soudan from the earliest times to the year 1885 inclusive; a bibliography, comprising printed books, periodical writings and papers of learned socie... by Ibrahim-Hilmy, Prince, son of Ismāʻīl, Khedive of Egypt
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