Those who decide to celebrate the New Year in Egypt can be given some advice: – choose a hotel where there are our compatriots, then there will be an opportunity to celebrate the New Year both in local and Russian time – choose a hotel where there is a heated pool and try not to navigate to proximity to the sea, besides, remember that the closer the hotel is to the sea, the more expensive it will be – remember…
Egypt State of north-eastern Africa, which also extends into a territory traditionally considered to be Asia, E of the Suez isthmus (Sinai peninsula). Second great civilization of the Near East, the Egyptian one developed with characteristics in some respects similar to the Mesopotamian model, in the economy (agriculture based on irrigation, canalization of water, intense commercial relations with Mediterranean and Asian countries), in the division of labor and in the social stratification, in the pyramidal structure of power at the top…
According to indexdotcom, the Egyptian flora is poor, because it counts only 2000 species, approximately, of phanerogams: this is due to the physical aspect of the region, the periodic flooding of the Nile valley and the dryness of the surrounding deserts. Various zones can be distinguished in the vegetation of Egypt. First of all, a Mediterranean coastal area where there is a vegetation of small shrubs, but without those characteristic of the Mediterranean scrub and annual or perennial herbaceous plants…
For the chronology, the figures provided by Manetone (v.), At least as they were handed down to us, do not withstand the most tenuous critical examination; every correction is bizarre. Some Egyptian texts allude to the appearance of the star Sothis in certain years of reign and thanks to those the twelfth, eighteenth and nineteenth dynasties are astronomically fixed. The Stone of Palermo and the Papyrus of the kings preserved in Turin give the opportunity to estimate with great approximation,…
In the peoples inhabiting Egypt there is a group of African origin and a group of Asian origin (Chantre); to the former belong the Egyptians proper: Copts, Fellāḥ, the residents of the oasis of el-Khārǵāh and the groups from the south: Begia, Sudanese, etc. (v. Ethiopian Negroes); the Bedouin Arabs and other populations immigrated from Asia belong to the Asian group: Jews, Turks, Armenians, Syrians, etc. (see corresponding items). The peoples commonly known by the name of Egyptians largely occupy…
The long period of the ancient Egyptian civilization was in the decade 1950-60 illuminated – and sometimes very intensely – by a remarkable series of archaeological discoveries, which very rarely were of a fortuitous nature. On the contrary, it should be emphasized that the most significant innovations derive from areas that have been the subject of careful and organic research since the beginning of Egyptian archeology: that is, they are the result of a technical will and framed in a…
Since the proclamation of the Republic (1952) onwards, numerous projects have been prepared for the planning of about twenty cities with a total population of 7 million residents. These are the plans for the cities of Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said; in addition, 120 new villages have been built in the area of the great dam. Since 1965, each working-class neighborhood in Cairo has its own work area, so that the residents can carry out their work in the sector in…
MODERN ART In Egypt, where the beginning of modern art in the Western sense coincides with the opening of the School of Fine Arts in Cairo (1908), many schools and many styles have followed one another: from the Cairo academy, point of Later training of many artists of the Arab world, painters such as Yūsuf Kamāl and Muḥammad Nāǧī and the sculptor Maḥmud Muḥtār came out. Between 1937 and 1945 the most important Egyptian avant-garde group, Art and Freedom, found inspiration in…
Surface. – From 1 February 1958 it constitutes one of the two regions (Egyptian region) of the United Arab Republic (see below). The total land area of Egypt it is 1,230,000 km 2 (of which about 60,000 are in Asia; the Gaza area, under trusteeship, measures 202 km 2 and has about 310,000 residents); it is now divided administratively (see table) into five governorates, seventeen provinces (of which three: Kafr el Cheich, Sohâg and Luxor, recently established) and six border districts. Population. –…
Population. – According to the census of March 1937, the population of Egypt is 15,904,525 residents, Including 40,000 nomadic Bedouins. The birth rate remains very high (42.1 ‰ in 1933; 39.4 in 1935) compared to 26.5 and 25.1 mortality, so that the average annual vegetative growth amounts to about 14 ‰ and is between the highest that have been observed. Economic conditions. – According to ebizdir, despite the limitations that have been tried to introduce, cotton production continues to steadily…
The geological constitution of Egypt is very simple. In the Etbāi chain, whose northern offshoots go beyond the 28 ° lat. Between the Nile and the Red Sea, the most ancient precambric soils emerge, forming the backbone of the region: gneiss and crystalline schists, with intrusions of normal granites and amphibolic red granites, diorites, syenites – which derive their name from Siene, the current Aswan (Aswān) – and large concentrations of sometimes auriferous quartz. There were also reported ores of…
At the advent of Diocletian, Egypt went through one of its, now very rare, periods of quiet, but shortly after, Lucio Domizio Domiziano, commonly known as Achilleus, rose up and made himself recognized by the Alexandrians as emperor. Diocletian personally came to the area, besieged the city for eight months and finally stormed it, abandoning it to devastation and pillage. The same fate befell Coptic, Busiri and other cities that had supported the usurper. Given the great decline of agriculture…
The XVIII dynasty (1550-1292) inaugurated the “imperial” phase of Egyptian history. Once the domination of the hyksos was over, it was necessary to restore the entire state machinery to efficiency. For many decades the Egypt it was a military country. The policy of broadening the conquests to the South and expanding into Asia, initiated by Thutmose I, was carried out by Thutmose III, who reached the Euphrates with a series of expeditions. Military talent was combined with political intelligence: the…
According to 800zipcodes, the life of the indigenous population of Egypt is today regulated, as in the past, by the increase and decrease of the waters of the Nile, although modern engineering has transformed the floods of the past into periodic inflows that allow in some places also a triple annual harvest, and although the old agriculture has already been enriched for a century, especially in the Delta, by the introduction of the cotton plant. The physical, moral and economic…