Cities & places in Egypt
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Pharao Egypt Hotel
Cairo, Egypt
Located in the city centre of downtown Cairo, close distance to the train station and near to…
Grand Oasis
Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
Situated directly on the sands of Sharks Bay, which is set in beautiful ladscaped grounds with…
Piramide van Gizeh
Giza, Egypt
There are no more famous ancient sites within Egypt, or for that matter elsewhere in the…
Het Egyptisch Museum
Cairo, Egypt
The greatest collection of Egyptian antiquities is, without doubt, that of the Egyptian Museum…
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Pharao Egypt Hotel
Cairo, Egypt
Located in the city centre of downtown Cairo, close distance to the train station and near to…
Het Egyptisch Museum
Cairo, Egypt
The greatest collection of Egyptian antiquities is, without doubt, that of the Egyptian Museum…
Piramide van Gizeh
Giza, Egypt
There are no more famous ancient sites within Egypt, or for that matter elsewhere in the…
Grand Oasis
Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
Situated directly on the sands of Sharks Bay, which is set in beautiful ladscaped grounds with…
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About Egypt
Egypt (جمهورية مصر العربية), is a large state in northeastern Africa. In the Arabian world, Egypt is known under the name Misr, simply shortening the official name.
The name Egypt originated in ancient Greece. There are two major theories about the origin of the name. First is over time, the name of an important shrine in Memphis, called "HWT-ka-Ptah 'was used for the whole area. HWT-ka-Ptah means "House of the Spirit of Ptah" and was translated into Greek in "Αι γυ πτος 'or' Aeguptos', the name given (in corrupted form) still applies. A second possible origin of the name comes from Greek and also would be derived from the Greek Aἰγαίου ὑπτίως ("Aegaeou uptiōs"), which means "below the Aegean". Egypt includes the Sinai Peninsula, which is physically a part of the Asian continent.