egypt

1. domain member region:

   • al alamayn, battle of el alamein, 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
   • al-gama'a al-islamiyya, islamic group - a terrorist organization of militant Islamists organized into tiny cells of extreme fundamentalists; emerged during the 1970s mainly in Egyptian jails
   • al-jihad, egyptian islamic jihad, islamic jihad, vanguards of conquest - an Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s; seeks to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it with an Islamic state; works in small underground cells
   is an instance of: african country, african nation - any one of the countries occupying the African continent
   member holonym: egyptian - a native or inhabitant of Egypt
   belongs to: arab league - an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation
   has:

   • aswan high dam, high dam - one of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt
   • sinai, sinai peninsula - 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
   • alexandria, el iskandriyah - 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, cairo, capital of egypt, egyptian capital, el qahira - 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 village to the west of Alexandria on the northern coast of Egypt; the scene of a decisive Allied victory over the Germans in 1942
   • 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
   • arabian desert, eastern desert - a desert in Egypt between the Nile River and the Red Sea
   • 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
   is a part of:

   • 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
   • 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
   same as: arab republic of egypt, united arab republic
2. is an instance of: empire, imperium - the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised
   same as: egyptian empire

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