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- Egypt (18830 bytes)
22: | [[English language|English]], [[French language|French]]
40: | from the [[United Kingdom|UK]]<br />[[28 February]],...
56: ...s a [[republic]] mostly located in North-Eastern Africa.
58: ...he majority of the country is located in [[North Africa]]. It shares land borders with [[Libya]] to th...
67: ...959;ς'' "aiguptos", which in turn is derived from the ancient [[Egyptian language|Egyptian]] phra... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
3: ...ww.stat.kz/en/info/stat-bul/stbr&e0303.pdf], down from 16,464,464 in [[1989]] [http://www.stat.kz/ru/d...
50: | From [[Soviet Union]], [[December 16]], [[1991]]
70: ...an since the [[1st century BC|first century BC]]. From the [[4th century|fourth century AD]] through t...
72: ... the livestock-based economy. The Kazakhs emerged from a mixture of tribes living in the region in abo...
76: ...ose still further once the [[Trans-Aral Railway]] from [[Orenburg]] to [[Tashkent]] was completed in 1... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ia]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]] (listed clockwise from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines o...
38: established_dates = From the League of Nations mandate administered by t...
60: ...ncia [[Syria Palaestina]]'', a Greek name derived from ''[[Philistine]]'' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] ...
68: ...], before becoming part of the [[Ottoman Empire]] from 1517 until 1918. Throughout the centuries the s...
73: ...nd. The Jewish population in the region increased from 11% of the population in 1922 to 30% by [[1940]... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
10: ...t mon droit]] (Royal motto)<br>([[French language|French]]: God and my right)''<sup>2</sup></small> |
56: ...r, although there is also a nominal frontier with France in the middle of the [[Channel Tunnel]]. The ...
62: ...d). This political usage of "Great Britain" dates from the personal union of the Crowns of Scotland an...
64: The [[British Isles]] is a term frequently used to refer to the [[archipelago]] whic...
71: ...nce]] of [[Ulster]], immediately opted out of the Free State and to remain in the UK. The nomenclature... - Egyptian pyramids (20601 bytes)
35: ...ost important of which are listed geographically, from north to south, below.
39: ....jpg|right|thumb|250px|The ruined Pyramid of Djedefre]]
41: ...sius}}— the mostly ruined Pyramid of [[Djedefre]], the son and successor of [[Khufu (pharaoh)|K...
42: ...gest of the [[Giza]] pyramids. On this basis Djedefre's edifice would have claimed the title of the fo...
44: ...he early 20th century. Today little remains apart from a few courses of stone superimposed upon the na... - Set (mythology) (12196 bytes)
2: ...'' in ''Set'' was pronounced so indistinguishably from ''th'' that the greeks spelt it this way, as ''...
15: ...). The earliest known representation of Set comes from a tomb dating to the [[Naqqada]] I phase of the...
22: ...rus then calls his own semen forth, which answers from inside Set, making the gods feel that Horus was...
27: ...iod]] temple at [[Hibis]] in the [[Kharga|Khargah Oasis]], Set was represented in this role with a [[falc...
29: ...thys, leading to an explanation in which Nepthys, frustrated by Set's lack of sexual interest in her, ... - Al Fayyum (5562 bytes)
5: ...) southwest of [[Cairo]]. The Fayyum proper is an oasis in the [[Libya]]n Desert, its eastern border bein...
9: ...suf. From this channel, 15 mile (24 km) in length from Lahun, at the entrance of the gap in the hills,...
11: ...eral large bazaars, [[mosque]]s, baths and a much-frequented weekly market. The Bahr Yusuf runs throug...
18: ...m the late [[Roman Empire]], notably Karanis, and from the [[Byzantine]] and early [[Islam]]ic Periods... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
9: ... Olympias was impregnated not by Philip, who was afraid of her and her affinity for sleeping in the co...
11: ...es]] through [[Caranus]] and his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] through [[Neoptolemus]] and [[Achill...
14: ... of Persia. [[Plutarch]] mentions an irate letter from Alexander to Darius III, where Alexander blames...
16: ...n a campaign to solidify control of Greece and confront the Persian Empire.
23: ...all coastal cities and denying them to his enemy. From Pamphylia onward the coast held no major ports,... - Desert (21206 bytes)
18: ...ey should be designated as specifically different from the simple definition of a desert: a place whe...
20: ...s an [[ice cap]] if the temperature remains below freezing year-round, rendering the land almost compl...
22: ... other areas are arid by virtue of being very far from the nearest available sources of moisture (this...
28: ...orld's largest desert, the [[Sahara]] of [[North Africa]], which has experienced temperatures as high ...
32: ... These deserts are in interior [[watershed]]s far from oceans and have a wide range of annual temperat... - Zeus (17267 bytes)
8: ...cal Zeus also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the [[ancient Near East]], such...
23: ... an altar to Zeus made not of stone, but of ash - from the accumulated remains of many centuries' wort...
25: ...could be found at any number of [[Greek temple]]s from [[Asia Minor]] to [[Sicily]]. Certain modes of ...
48: ...]], where there is evidence of religious activity from the [[2nd millennium BC]] onward, centered arou...
53: The oracle of [[Ammon]] at the oasis of [[Siwa]] in [[Libya]] did not lie within the b... - Egyptian mythology (14567 bytes)
21: ...thought to be pets of Egyptian families, but more frequently or more likely they were the representati...
30: ...s. In fact, Akhenaten and Tutankhamun's removals from the Wall of Kings are likely related to the rad...
32: ...istic. A recent alternative explanation resulting from interpreting particular items of knowledge conc...
38: ...les are still standing today. Others are in ruins from wear and tear, while others have been lost enti...
44: * [[Ain el-Muftella]] ([[Bahariya Oasis]]) [http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/ain.h... - Hyksos (23575 bytes)
4: ...hink of the Canaanites as being indistinguishable from the [[Phoenicia|Phoenicians]]. The Hyksos intro...
6: ...e names of the Fifteenth Dynasty Hyksos are known from Egyptian monuments, scarabs and other small obj...
9: The term "Hyksos" derives from the expression ''heka khasewet'' (Rulers of For...
15: ...Fifteenth Dynasty Hyksos rulers as they are known from monuments, scarabs, and other objects are:
26: ...reign (a good Egyptian practice which is attested frequently) remains for future discoveries to resolv... - History of Greek and Roman Egypt (25856 bytes)
3: ... BC]], and was ruled first from [[Rome]] and then from [[Constantinople]] until the Arab conquest in A...
8: ... on pilgrimage to the oracle of [[Amun]] at the [[Oasis of Siwa]]. The oracle had the good sense to decla...
14: ...ges throughout the country. Upper Egypt, farthest from the centre of government, was less immediately ...
19: ...s then tried to invade Egypt but Ptolemy held the frontier against him. When the coalition was renewed...
29: ...[Babylonia]], while his fleets in the Aegean made fresh conquests as far north as [[Thrace]]. - Coral (8108 bytes)
1: ...ge:Reef0484.jpg|thumb|left|A coral reef can be an oasis of marine life.]]
4: ... corals obtain much of their nutrient requirement from [[symbiosis|symbiotic]] unicellular [[alga]]e c...
21: ..., and they are relatively common fossils in rocks from the [[Jurassic]] and [[Cretaceous]] periods as ...
23: ...us period of South America and [[Denmark]]. Reefs from both the Silurian and [[Carboniferous]] periods...
38: ...cies exhibit banding in their skeletons resulting from [[annual]] variations in their growth rate. In ...
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