History
The last Queen of ancient Egypt (Cleopatra) married the Roman Mark Antony bringing her country as "dowry", and since then Egypt was part of the Roman Empire for seven centuries. Many people from the Italian peninsula moved to live in Egypt during those centuries: the tombs of Christian Alexandria shows how deep was that presence.
Since then there has been a continuous presence of people (born in the Italian peninsula) and their descendants in Egypt.
Read more about this topic: Italian Egyptians
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