Egypt
French: l'Égypte
- Al Iskandariyya Alexandrie
- Asyut Assiout
- Aswan Assouan
- Al-Qahirah Le Caire
- Medinat dimyat Damiette
- Edfu Edfou
- Faiyum Fayoum
- el-Gizah Gizeh
- Luxor Louxor
- 'Mansoura Mansourah
- Al-Minya Miniéh
- Bur Sa'id Port-Saïd
- Abu Simbel Abou Simbel
- Sharm-el-Sheikh Charm-el-Cheikh
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Famous quotes containing the word egypt:
“New York, you are an Egypt! But an Egypt turned inside out. For she erected pyramids of slavery to death, and you erect pyramids of democracy with the vertical organ-pipes of your skyscrapers all meeting at the point of infinity of liberty!”
—Salvador Dali (1904–1989)
“Go down, Moses
‘Way down in Egypt land,
Tell ole Pharaoh,
To let my people go.”
—Unknown. Go Down, Moses (l. 1–4)