The Nile Delta (Arabic: دلتا النيل, Delta an-Nīl or simply الدلتا, ad-Delta) is the delta formed in Lower Egypt where the Nile River spreads out and drains...
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the Nile empties into the Mediterranean Sea The Sacramento River Delta The Delta (film), 1996 The Delta (novel), a 1987 novel by Colin Wilson Delta (disambiguation)...
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The Nile (also known as the Nile River) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile is the longest...
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river delta is so named because the shape of the Nile Delta approximates the triangular uppercase Greek letter delta. The triangular shape of the Nile Delta...
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major sea invasion. The conflict occurred on the shores of the eastern Nile Delta and on the border of the Egyptian Empire in Syria, although precise locations...
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Geography of Egypt (section Nile Valley and Delta)
There are nine governorates of Lower Egypt in the Nile Delta region, ten of Upper Egypt along the Nile river south from Cairo to Aswan and five frontier...
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Lower Egypt (redirect from Lower Nile)
fertile Nile Delta between Upper Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea, from El Aiyat, south of modern-day Cairo, and Dahshur. Historically, the Nile River split...
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The Nile Delta flooded savanna, ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0904) covers both the Nile Delta proper, where the Nile River enters the Mediterranean Sea, as well...
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community Delta County (disambiguation) Delta Island, Antarctica Delta Stream, Antarctica Delta, Minas Gerais, Brazil Nile Delta, Egypt Delta, Thessaloniki...
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occasionally inhabits deltas, brackish lakes and rarely also saltwater. Its range once stretched from the Nile Delta throughout the Nile River. Lake Turkana...
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Cyperus papyrus (redirect from Nile sedge)
uncertain origin, but was rendered in Hellenistic Greek as πάπυρος. In the Nile Delta, Cyperus papyrus was widely cultivated in ancient times. It is for example...
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Egypt (redirect from Gift of the Nile)
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...
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The Apostolic Vicariate of Heliopolis (of Egypt) (originally of the Nile Delta) was a Catholic missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction of the Latin Church...
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The Nile Delta toad or Damietta toad (Amietophrynus kassasii) is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is endemic to Egypt, where it is found from...
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Zagazig (category Nile Delta)
[ez.zæɡæˈziːɡ]) is a city in Egypt. Situated in the eastern part of the Nile delta, it is the capital of the governorate of Sharqia. It is located on the...
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and paternal Egyptian origins whose historical stronghold is in the Nile Delta. "Deeply rooted in Egyptian society... [and] in the history of the country"...
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minor cataracts. In ancient times, Upper Egypt extended from south of the Nile Delta to the first cataract, while further upstream, the land was controlled...
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This is a list of ancient Egyptian sites, throughout Egypt and Nubia. Sites are listed by their classical name whenever possible, if not by their modern...
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Crested lark (redirect from Nile Delta crested lark)
(northern Niger) Nile Delta crested lark (G. c. nigricans) - Brehm, CL, 1855: Originally described as a separate species. Found in the Nile Delta (northern Egypt)...
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twfy) from the Ramesside period, which refers to lakes in the eastern Nile delta. He also describes references to p3 twfy in the context of the Island...
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stormed and took the strategic city of Pelusium and marched on towards the Nile Delta where he defeated an Egyptian force sent to stop him. A Jewish force,...
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Avaris (category Nile Delta)
northeastern region of the Nile Delta. As the main course of the Nile migrated eastward, its position at the hub of Egypt's delta emporia made it a major...
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El Guindy 1984.Crop yields, soil salinity and water table depth in the Nile Delta. In: ILRI Annual Report 1983, Wageningen, The Netherlands, pp. 19–29....
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Mediterranean short-toed lark (redirect from Nile Delta lesser short-toed lark)
Peninsula and eastern Iraq A. r. nicolli - (Hartert, 1909): Found in the Nile Delta (northern Egypt) 4 other subspecies (A. r. heinei, A. r. pseudobaetica...
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build cities and for the first time a sturdy urban life grows up in the Nile Delta. c. 950 BC-800 BC—Some early parts of the Bible are written. c. 950 BC—Kurukshetra...
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Aaru (category Nile Delta)
Osiris, an Egyptian god, the location has been described as the ka of the Nile Delta. Ancient Egyptians believed that the soul resided in the heart, and that...
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possibly a shepherd who lived in Predynastic times (5500–3100 BC) in the Nile Delta, whose beneficial rule led to him being revered as a god. The accoutrements...
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1800 BC: Hyksos start to settle in the Nile Delta. They had the capital at Avaris in northeastern Nile Delta. 1800 BC: Adichanallur urn-burial site in...
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navigable course is through the Nile River, being the mouth section in the Mediterranean Sea (more precisely after the Nile Delta) until it surrounds the city...
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Land of Goshen (category Nile Delta)
when they left Egypt. It is believed to have been located in the eastern Nile Delta, lower Egypt; perhaps at or near Avaris, the seat of power of the Hyksos...
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