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The death of Cleopatra ended the nominal independence of Egypt, resulting in Egypt's becoming one of the provinces of the Roman Empire. Roman rule in Egypt (including Byzantine ) lasted from 30 BC to 641 AD, with a brief interlude of control by the Sasanian Empire between 619 and 629, known as Sasanian Egypt . [1]
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Greco-Roman Egypt. Macedonian/Ptolmaic Egypt 332–30 BC;...
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Greco-Roman Egypt. Argead dynasty: 332–310 BC: Ptolemaic...
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Contents. Home Geography & Travel Historical Places. Roman and Byzantine Egypt (30 bce – 642 ce) Egypt as a province of Rome. “I added Egypt to the empire of the Roman people.”
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The Roman Empire province of Egypt included most of todays’ Egypt, except for the Sinai Peninsula. The Prefect Tragan later conquered and added Sinai. The first Prefect of Egypt was Gaius Cornelius Gallus. Gallus brought Upper Egypt under full Roman control by military might. He brought Lower Egypt back into the Kingdom, which the Ptolemies ...
Timeline. 30 BCE. Egypt becomes province of the Roman Empire . 30 BCE. Death of Cleopatra VII, end of the Ptolemaic Dynasty in Egypt . c. 50 CE - c. 60 CE. Establishment of various Christian communities in the Eastern Mediterranean, Greece, Egypt, and at least the city of Rome . 269 CE. Zenobia invades and conquers Egypt . 285 CE.
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Egypt is considered to be a regional power in North Africa, the Middle East and the Muslim world, and a middle power worldwide. [24] It is a developing country having a diversified economy, which is the largest in Africa, the 38th-largest economy by nominal GDP and 127th by nominal GDP per capita. [25]
Roman rule was established in Egypt after Octavian (Augustus) displaced the last ruler of the Ptolemaic line, the famous Cleopatra VII. It proved to be a great and rich province for Augustus, who organized the country not so much as a Roman Province but as the emperor's own special domain land.
1 Egypt under Roman rule: the legacy of ancient Egypt; 2 Egypt on the eve of the Muslim conquest; 3 Egypt as a province in the Islamic caliphate, 641–868; 4 Autonomous Egypt from Ibn Tūlūn to Kāfūr, 868–969; 5 The Ismā‘īlī Da‘wa and the Fātimid caliphate; 6 The Fātimid state, 969–1171; 7 The non-Muslim communities: Christian ...
