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History First Egyptian satrapy. Cambyses II became the Pharaoh of Egypt after his successful subsumption of Egypt into the Persian Empire. In doing so, Cambyses II was given the Pharaoh name of Mesuti Ra, beginning the 27th dynasty (the first Egyptian Satrapy) which lasted from 525 to 404 BCE. A Pharaoh name was a significant tradition for ...
The Cairo Geniza is an accumulation of almost 200,000 Jewish manuscripts that were found in the genizah of the Ben Ezra synagogue (built 882) of Fustat, Egypt (now Old Cairo), the Basatin cemetery east of Old Cairo, and a number of old documents that were bought in Cairo in the later 19th century. These documents were written from about 870 to ...
From the 1850s until the 1930s, Egypt's economy was heavily reliant on long-staple cotton, introduced in the mid-1820s during the reign of Muhammad Ali (1805–49) and made possible by the switch from basin irrigation to perennial, modern irrigation. [22] Cotton cultivation was a key ingredient in an ambitious program that the Egyptian ruler ...
History of ancient Israel and Judah. The northern Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah to the south. Israel and Judah were Iron Age kingdoms of the old Near East. The area of time covered in this page is from the first mention of the name Israel in the archaeological record (1200 BCE) to the end of a independent Judean kingdom near the ...
R. Republic of Egypt (1953–1958) Categories: Egypt. History by country. History of Africa by country. History of Asia by country. History of the Middle East by country. History of North Africa by country.
The History of Hamas is an account of the Palestinian Islamist [1] [2] fundamentalist [3] [4] [5] socio-political organization with an associated paramilitary force, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. [1] [6] [7] Hamas ( حماس) Ḥamās is an acronym of حركة المقاومة الاسلامية Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamat al-Islāmiyyah ...
The Egyptian pyramids are ancient masonry structures located in Egypt. Sources cite at least 118 identified "Egyptian" pyramids. [1] [2] Approximately 80 pyramids were built within the Kingdom of Kush, now located in the modern country of Sudan. Of those located in modern Egypt, most were built as tombs for the country's pharaohs and their ...
