The Sinai Peninsula, or simply Sinai (/ˈsaɪnaɪ/ SY-ny; Arabic: سِينَاء; Egyptian Arabic: سينا; Coptic: Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ), is a peninsula in Egypt, and the only part...
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The Sinai Peninsula, which is a part of Egypt, has been militarily occupied by Israel twice since the beginning of the Arab–Israeli conflict: the first...
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Serbal Mount Catherine Mount Sinai Jabal Ahmad al Baqir Jebel al-Madhbah Mount Sin Bishar Mount Helal Hashem el-Tarif Mount Sinai (Hebrew: הַר סִינַי, Har...
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Moses), is a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. It is one of several locations claimed to be the biblical Mount Sinai, the place where, according...
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group Islamic State that was active in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Sinai Province was originally known as Ansar Bait...
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The Sinai insurgency was an insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, launched by Islamist militants against Egyptian security forces, which have also...
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Israeli-occupied territories (redirect from Occupation of the Sinai Peninsula)
Heights since the Six-Day War of 1967. It previously occupied the Sinai Peninsula and southern Lebanon as well. Prior to 1967, the Palestinian territories...
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Look up Sinai, sinai, Sinaï, Sinaí, or šinai in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sinai commonly refers to: Sinai Peninsula, Egypt Mount Sinai, a mountain...
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Ras Sedr massacre (redirect from Extrajudicial killings in the Sinai Peninsula)
paratrooper unit of the Israel Defense Forces conquered Ras Sedr in the Sinai Peninsula on 8 June 1967 during the Six-Day War. In June 2000, Egypt's Al-Wafd...
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Al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula (Arabic: القاعدة في شبه جزيرة سيناء, romanized: al-Qā‘idah fī shibh Jazīrat Sīnāʼ), or AQSP, was an Egyptian militant...
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Yom Kippur War (redirect from Battle of Sinai)
Syria. The majority of combat between the two sides took place in the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights—both of which had been occupied by Israel in...
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Holiest sites in Islam (redirect from Sinai Peninsula in Islam)
Muhammad. The Sinai Peninsula is associated with the prophets Harun (Aaron) and Musa (Moses). In particular, numerous references to Mount Sinai exist in the...
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Mount Sinai is a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. Mount Sinai may also refer to: Mount Sinai (Bible), where, according to the Bible, God gave...
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Six-Day War (redirect from Israeli conquest of Sinai)
Egypt's Sinai Peninsula as well as the Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip. After some initial resistance, Nasser ordered an evacuation of the Sinai Peninsula; by...
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1967 Six-Day War Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Egyptian Sinai Peninsula and Syrian Golan Heights. Israel established and continues to expand...
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Geography of Egypt (section Sinai Peninsula)
Desert (extends from the Nile Valley all the way to the Red Sea coast) Sinai Peninsula Despite covering only about 5% of the total area of Egypt; the Nile...
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Suez Crisis (redirect from Sinai Campaign)
four-month-long occupation of the Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula enabled it to attain freedom of navigation through the Straits of Tiran...
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entered by mistake, due to a system malfunction, the airspace of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula – then under Israeli occupation – resulting in the death of 108 civilians...
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continent. Includes Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Figure is for the Sinai Peninsula. Total area is 1,010,408 (390,121) including African part. Total area...
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Saudi Arabia. In the classical era, the Sinai Peninsula was also considered a part of Arabia. The Arabian Peninsula formed as a result of the rifting of...
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The August 2012 Sinai attack occurred on 5 August 2012, when armed men ambushed an Egyptian military base in the Sinai Peninsula, killing 16 soldiers and...
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Peak or Ras es-Safsafeh (Arabic: رأس صفصافة) is a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula. The mountain peak overlooks Saint Catherine's Monastery, and is situated...
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Tarabin Bedouin (section Sinai Tarabin)
Arab tribe in the Sinai Peninsula during the 19th century, and the largest inside Negev. Today this tribe resides in the Sinai Peninsula but also in Cairo...
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culminating in the Suez Crisis of 1956, during which Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula in order to force a re-opening of the blockaded waters, though the...
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massacre an attempt of genocide against the Sufi Muslim community of the Sinai Peninsula. EOHR also called upon the Egyptian government to provide adequate...
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definitions also include southern Lebanon, southern Syria and/or the Sinai Peninsula. As a strictly geographical description, it is sometimes used by archaeologists...
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Anatolia, the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Mesopotamia, the Armenian highlands, the Levant, the island of Cyprus, the Sinai Peninsula and the South Caucasus...
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the Sinai refer to a series of military engagements between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Egyptian Army fought in the Sinai Peninsula in December...
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Saint Catherine's Monastery (redirect from St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai)
and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, is a Christian monastery located in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. Located at the foot of Mount Sinai, it was built between...
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They conclude, however, that Dictamnus spp. are not found in the Sinai peninsula, adding: "It is, therefore, highly improbable that any Dictamnus spp...
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