Vi fant 3 definisjoner av Egypt på engelsk.
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| Egypt - a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC | ||
| Arab Republic of Egypt, United Arab Republic | ||
| middle east, mideast, near east the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century; "the Middle East is the cradle of Western civilization" | ||
| africa the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean | ||
| opec organization of petroleum-exporting countries | ||
| arab league an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation | ||
| aswan high dam, high dam one of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt | ||
| sinai peninsula, sinai a peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea | ||
| lower egypt one of the two main administrative districts of Egypt; consists of the Nile delta | ||
| upper egypt one of the two main administrative districts of Egypt; extends south from Cairo to Sudan | ||
| el iskandriyah, alexandria the chief port of Egypt; located on the western edge of the Nile delta on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by Alexander the Great; the capital of ancient Egypt | ||
| assouan, assuan, aswan an ancient city on the Nile in Egypt; two dams across the Nile have been built nearby | ||
| al qahira, capital of egypt, egyptian capital, el qahira, cairo the capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa; a major port just to the south of the Nile delta; formerly the home of the Pharaohs | ||
| el alamein a pitched battle in World War II (1942) resulting in a decisive Allied victory by British troops under Montgomery over German troops under Rommel | ||
| el giza, giza, gizeh an ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo; site of three Great Pyramids and the Sphinx | ||
| memphis an ancient city of Egypt on the Nile (south of Cairo) | ||
| el-aksur, luxor a city in central Egypt on the east bank of the Nile that is a center for visitors to the ruins of and around Thebes | ||
| thebes an ancient Egyptian city on the Nile River that flourished from the 22nd century BC to the 18th century BC; today the archeological remains include many splendid temples and tombs | ||
| sakkara, saqqara, saqqarah a town in northern Egypt; site of the oldest Egyptian pyramids | ||
| suez a city in northeastern Egypt at the head of the Gulf of Suez and at the southern end of the Suez Canal | ||
| suez canal a ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea | ||
| eastern desert, arabian desert a desert on the Arabian Peninsula in southwestern Asia | ||
| libyan desert the northeastern part of the Sahara Desert in Libya and Egypt and Sudan | ||
| lake nasser, nasser lake in Egypt formed by dams built on the Nile River at Aswan | ||
| nile, nile river the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization | ||
| Egypt - an ancient empire to the west of Israel; centered on the Nile River and ruled by a Pharaoh; figured in many events described in the Old Testament | ||
| Egyptian Empire | ||