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Zaqaziq, Az

(Encyclopedia)Zaqaziq, Az, Egypt: see Zagazig, Az. ...

Saqqara

(Encyclopedia)Saqqara, ancient necropolis, Egypt: see Sakkara. ...

Kantara, El

(Encyclopedia)Kantara, El, Egypt: see Qantarah esh Sharqiya. ...

Munkhafad al-Qattarah

(Encyclopedia)Munkhafad al-Qattarah, basin, Egypt: see Qattara Depression. ...

Tel el Amarna

(Encyclopedia)Tel el Amarna, Egypt: see Tell el Amarna. ...

moon worship

(Encyclopedia)moon worship. Although the moon has not had great prominence in the history of religion, the worship of it has been known since earliest recorded time—in the oldest literatures of Egypt, Babylonia, ...

Mandeville, Sir John

(Encyclopedia)Mandeville, Sir John, 14th-century English author of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. Originally written in Norman French, the work became enormously popular and was translated into English, Latin,...

North Africa, campaigns in

(Encyclopedia)North Africa, campaigns in, series of military contests for control of North Africa during World War II. The desert war started in 1940 and for more than two years thereafter seesawed between NE Libya...

Qantarah esh Sharqiya

(Encyclopedia)Qantarah esh Sharqiya känˈtärä ĕsh shärkēˈyä [key], town, NE Egypt, on the east bank of the Suez Canal. It is on the ancient military road between Egypt and Syria. Qantarah esh Sharqiya is th...

Ibrahim Pasha

(Encyclopedia)Ibrahim Pasha ēbrähēmˈ päˈshä [key], 1789–1848, Egyptian general. He was the eldest son of Muhammad Ali, governor of Egypt under the Ottoman Empire. Ibrahim conducted (1816–19) largely succ...