Egyptian
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Egyptian may refer to:
  • Of or pertaining to Egypt
    Egypt
    Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

    , a country in northeastern Africa
    • A citizen of Egypt. See Demographics of Egypt
      Demographics of Egypt
      Egypt is the most populous country in the Middle East and the third-most populous on the African continent . Nearly 100% of the country's 80,810,912 people live in three major regions of the country: Cairo and Alexandria and elsewhere along the banks of the Nile; throughout the Nile delta, which...

      .
    • Egyptians
      Egyptians
      Egyptians are nation an ethnic group made up of Mediterranean North Africans, the indigenous people of Egypt.Egyptian identity is closely tied to geography. The population of Egypt is concentrated in the lower Nile Valley, the small strip of cultivable land stretching from the First Cataract to...

      , an ethnic group in North Africa
    • Egyptian Arabic
      Egyptian Arabic
      Egyptian Arabic is the language spoken by contemporary Egyptians.It is more commonly known locally as the Egyptian colloquial language or Egyptian dialect ....

      , the language spoken in Egypt. See also Languages of Egypt.
    • Egyptian culture
      Culture of Egypt
      The culture of Egypt has thousands of years of recorded history. Ancient Egypt was among the earliest civilizations. For millennia, Egypt maintained a strikingly complex and stable culture that influenced later cultures of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. After the Pharaonic era, Egypt itself...

      , culture of the nation
    • Egyptian cuisine
      Egyptian cuisine
      Egyptian cuisine consists of the local culinary traditions of Egypt. Egyptian cuisine makes heavy use of legumes and vegetables, as Egypt's rich Nile Valley and Delta produce large quantities of high-quality crops.- History and characteristics :...

  • Of or pertaining to ancient Egyptian civilization
    Ancient Egypt
    Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh...

    , from circa 3200 BC to 343 BC
    • Ancient Egyptian cuisine
      Ancient Egyptian cuisine
      The cuisine of ancient Egypt covers a span of over three thousand years, but still retained many consistent traits until well into Greco-Roman times...

    • Egyptian language
      Egyptian language
      Egyptian is the oldest known indigenous language of Egypt and a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. Written records of the Egyptian language have been dated from about 3400 BC, making it one of the oldest recorded languages known. Egyptian was spoken until the late 17th century AD in the...

      , spoken until the seventeenth century
  • Egyptians (Balkans), an unrelated Albanian-speaking ethnic minority of Kosovo and Macedonia
  • of or pertaining to the region of Southern Illinois known as "Egypt" or "Little Egypt"
  • The Egyptian
    The Egyptian
    The Egyptian is a historical novel by Mika Waltari. It was first published in Finnish in 1945, and in an abridged English translation by Naomi Walford in 1949. It was adapted into a film in 1954....

    , a 1945 historical novel by Mika Waltari
  • The Egyptian (film)
    The Egyptian (film)
    The Egyptian is an American 1954 epic film made in CinemaScope by 20th Century Fox, directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. It is based on Mika Waltari's novel and the screenplay was adapted by Philip Dunne and Casey Robinson...

    , a 1954 film by Michael Curtiz, based on Waltari's novel
  • Slab serif
    Slab serif
    In typography, a slab serif typeface is a type of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs. Serif terminals may be either blunt and angular , or rounded . Slab serif typefaces generally have no bracket...

     letter forms in typography
    • Egyptian (typeface)

People

  • Saint-Saëns'
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...

     Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major
    Piano Concerto No. 5 (Saint-Saëns)
    The Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, Op. 103, popularly known as The Egyptian, was Camille Saint-Saëns' last piano concerto. He wrote it in 1896, 20 years after his Fourth Piano Concerto, to play himself at his own Jubilee Concert on May 6 of that year...

    , popularly known as "The Egyptian"
  • Egyptian Healy (1866–1899), pitcher for Major League Baseball in the 19th century
  • Egyptian Lover
    Egyptian Lover
    Greg Broussard , better known by his stage name Egyptian Lover is an American musician, vocalist, producer and DJ, and was an important part of the L.A. dance music and rap scene in the early 1980s....

     (born 1963), American musician, vocalist, producer and DJ
  • Famous Egyptian
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