Egypt
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...and the Red Sea in the east, Sudan in the south...Jilf al-Kabir plateau. East of the Nile is the Arabian...growing population. After 1945, a large proportion of...periods. The Old and Middle Kingdoms A high culture...kept by the central government, tended to disappear...next millennium. The Middle Kingdom, founded at the...Ayyubid dynasty. The strategic position of Egypt made...south to Arabia in the east and Syria in the northeast...facto ruler. By 1904 the governments of France, Austria...Israeli Wars ). In domestic politics, the Wafd acquired a...