EGYPT

EGYPT'S POPULATION AND MAJOR CITIES

• 82.06 million
• Alexandria is also the country's most important harbor
• For exports and imports
• Giza and Shubra al Khaymah

Ethnicities
Egypt includes the Bedouin Arab tribes of the Sinai Peninsula and the eastern desert the Berber speaking community of the Siwa Oasis and the Nubian people clustered along the Nile in the southernmost part of Egypt

WARS THAT EGYPT HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN

• Napoleon’s Conquest of Egypt Part of the French Revolutionary Wars, a French army, led by Napoleon, defeated the Turks and conquered Egypt.
• Egyptian Revolution Political violence engulfed Egypt, leading to the rise of Muhammed Ali as Pasha of Egypt.
• Anglo-Egyptian War Seeking to replace Muhammed Ali with a puppet ruler favorable to British interests, Britain invaded with nearly 5,000 troops on March 17, 1807. British forces led by General A. Mackenzie
• Ali’s Massacre of the Mamelukes In order to consolidate his power as the ruler of Egypt, Muhammed Ali killed the Mameluke leaders and massacred the Mameluke soldiers, replacing them with an army of Albanian mercenaries.
• Wahabi War After recognizing Ottoman suzerainty over Egypt (a formality which left Ali in charge, but created a peace between Egypt and the Turks), Ali engaged in a war against the Wahabi Muslim sect in Arabia. The Wahabis had conquered the Muslim Holy cities of Mecca and Medina from Turkish rule, and in heavy fighting, the Egyptians retook these Holy areas from the Wahabis and then occupied them in the name of the Ottoman Empire.

MORE WARS

• Egyptian Conquest of the Sudan
• Greek War of Independence
• First Turko-Egyptian War
• Second Turko-Egyptian War
• Sudanese War

MORE WARS

• First World War
• Second World War
• Libyan Civil War

Natural resources
Egypt's mineral and energy resources include petroleum, natural gas, phosphates, gold and iron ore. Crude oil is found primarily in the Gulf of Suez and in the Western Desert. Natural gas is found mainly in the Nile Delta, off the Mediterranean shore, and in the Western Desert.

MAJOR INDUSTRIES

• Egypt's main exports consist of natural gas, and non-petroleum products such as ready-made clothes, cotton textiles, medical and petrochemical products, citrus fruits, rice and dried onion, and more recently cement, steel, and ceramics.

GOVERNMENT

• Republic government

Historical Events

• The Egyptians began using the pyramid form shortly after 2700 B.C., and the great heyday of constructing them for royalty extended for about a thousand years, until about 1700 B.C

HISTORICAL EVENTS

• The Great Sphinx was built in 2520-2494 B.C.,
• The Sphinx is only part of a set of structures built to serve the cult of the dead king and the sun god.

CURRENT LEADER OR LEADERS

• The current leader of Egypt is Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
• He was elected in May 28, 2014.
• He was born November 19, 1954.
• He is 60 years old.

SIZE OF EGYPT

• Egypt is 386,700 sq miles.
• Or 1.001 million km2

MAJOR PHYSICAL FEATURES

• Nile Valley and Nile Delta
• Western desert
• Eastern desert
• Sinai peninsula
• The pyramids and great Sphinx.

EGYPYS FLAG AND MEANING

• Meaning- is a tricolour consisting of the three equal horizontal red, white, and black bands of the Arab Liberation flag dating back to the Egyptian Revolution of 1952. The flag bears Egypt's national emblem, the Eagle of Saladin centered in the white band.

CURRENT NEWS IN EGYPT

• The U.S won't back Egypt's attacks on Isis.
• To the U.S., the ISIS threat may feel far away, in Iraq and Syria, where the U.S.-led air campaign is entering its seventh month. For Egypt, this is a danger that’s alarmingly close to home. ISIS is within its borders and in neighboring Libya. Extremist fighters have come from and travel through the Sinai. And many ISIS and jihadi fighters and weapons arrive in places like the Sinai from Libya.
• http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/18/u-s-won-t-back-egypt-s-att...

AGRICULTURE

• Cotton is one of there staple crops.
• Other crops such as wheat, barley, vegetables, figs, melons, pomegranates and vines. Are also grown.
• Wheat is one of the important one to.

EDUCATION

• Egypt has an extensive education system that outstrips all others in the Middle East and North Africa, and where even tertiary education is free. The compulsory primary education program follows kindergarten at age 4. Primary school that begins at age six takes 6 years and preparatory school another 3.

CLIMATE

• Egypt essentially has a hot desert climate. The climate is generally extremely dry all over the country except on the northern Mediterranean coast which receives more rainfall in winter.