Lake of Egypt is a reservoir in the Little Egypt region of the U.S. state of Illinois. It is located six miles (10 km) south of Marion, Illinois and covers...
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Egypt contains many lakes currently and other lakes that have vanished. A vast reservoir in southern Egypt and northern Sudan created by the damming of...
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Lake Nasser (Arabic: بحيرة ناصر Boħeiret Nāṣer, Egyptian Arabic: [boˈħeiɾet ˈnɑːseɾ]) is a vast reservoir in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. It was...
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census-designated place of Egypt Lake-Leto. It was a separate census-designated place from 1970 to 1990. The population as of the 1990 census was 14,580...
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Bitter Lake (Arabic: البحيرة المرة الكبرى; transliterated: al-Buḥayrah al-Murra al-Kubrā) is a large saltwater lake in Egypt which is part of the Suez...
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Egypt (Arabic: مصر Miṣr [mesˁr], Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [mɑsˤr]), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning...
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White Nile, which begins at Lake Victoria in Uganda, supplies about 28% of the Nile's Egyptian waters. In its course from Lake Victoria to Juba in South...
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Lake Mariout (Arabic: بحيرة مريوط Boḥēret Maryūṭ, IPA: [boˈħeːɾet mɑɾˤˈjuːtˤ], also spelled Maryut or Mariut), is a brackish lake in northern Egypt near...
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Egypt Lake-Leto is a census-designated place (CDP) in an unincorporated part of Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. The CDP is located just north...
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territory of modern-day Egypt. Ancient Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3100 BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology)...
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crops and agriculture plants. Three of Egypt's Northern Lakes are located there: Lake Mariout, Edko Lake and Lake Burullus. This subregion faces Central...
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Oasis, 80 km (50 mi) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, which persists today at a fraction of its former size as the hypersaline Lake Qarun (Arabic: بركة قارون)....
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Lake Manzala (Arabic: بحيرة المنزلة baḥīrat manzala), also Manzaleh, is a brackish lake, sometimes called a lagoon, in northeastern Egypt on the Nile...
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Ptolemaic Kingdom (redirect from Ptolemaic Period of Egypt)
polity based in Egypt during the Hellenistic period. It was founded in 305 BC by the Macedonian general Ptolemy I Soter, a companion of Alexander the Great...
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economy of Egypt is a highly centralized economy, focused on import substitution under president Gamal Abdel Nasser (1954–1970). During the rule of president...
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endorheic lakes in the Sahara Desert of Egypt. Their presence is caused by periodic overflow from Lake Nasser. The presence of the depression helped establish...
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Lake Timsah, also known as Crocodile Lake (Arabic: بُحَيْرة التِّمْسَاح); is a lake in Egypt on the Nile delta. It lies in a basin developed along a fault...
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Cairo south to Lake Nasser (formed by the Aswan High Dam). In ancient Egypt, Upper Egypt was known as tꜣ šmꜣw, literally "the Land of Reeds" or "the Sedgeland"...
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translit. limnē Sebennytikē) is a brackish water lake in the Nile Delta in Egypt, the name coming from Burullus town (Coptic: Ϯⲡⲁⲣⲁⲗⲓⲁ, from Ancient Greek...
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The wildlife of Egypt is composed of the flora and fauna of this country in northeastern Africa and southwestern Asia, and is substantial and varied. Apart...
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located at one of the seven mouths of the Nile, Egypt known as Paralus or Sebennys. During Byzantine times it was located in the province of Ægyptus Secunda...
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Lake El Rayan is a lake located within the Wadi El Rayan Protected Area in Egypt. It covers an area of 52.9 square kilometers and consists of two lakes...
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Sobek (category Articles containing Ancient Egyptian-language text)
Faiyum region – the "Land of the Lake" in Egyptian (specifically referring to Lake Moeris) – served as a cult center of Sobek. Most Faiyum towns developed...
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Aswan Dam (redirect from Egypt High Dam)
1980s, the Aswan High Dam, is one of the world's largest embankment dams, which was built across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt, between 1960 and 1970. When it...
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1920 – 18 March 1965) was the tenth ruler of Egypt from the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and the Sudan, succeeding his father, Fuad...
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Nile (redirect from Source of the Nile)
part of which is in Egypt. Below the Aswan Dam, at the northern limit of Lake Nasser, the Nile resumes its historic course. North of Cairo, the Nile splits...
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and record producer, known professionally as the Blessed Madonna Lake Mariout, Egypt, once called Marea Fiat Marea MAREA, a transatlantic communications...
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protected area of Zaranik (also known for diversities of insects and waterbirds) in Egypt on the north coast of the Sinai Peninsula. Lake Bardawil is about...
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Suez Canal (redirect from Suez Canal (Egypt))
an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia (and...
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New Administrative Capital (redirect from New capital of Egypt)
new urban community in Cairo Governorate, Egypt and a satellite of Cairo City. It is planned to be Egypt's new capital and has been under construction...
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