History of Egypt 13588 224239910 2008-07-07T23:12:20Z Thijs!bot 1392310 robot Adding: [[cs:Dějiny Egypta]] {{History of Egypt}} [[Image:Egypt.Hathor.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Hathor]]]] The '''history of Egypt''' is the longest continuous history, as a unified state, of any country in the world. The [[Nile]] valley forms a natural geographic and economic unit, bounded to the east and west by deserts, to the north by the sea and to the south by the [[Cataracts of the Nile]]. The need to have a single authority to manage the waters of the Nile led to the creation of the world's first [[state]] in [[Egypt]] in about [[3000 BC]]. Egypt's peculiar geography made it a difficult country to attack, which is why [[Ancient Egypt|Pharaonic Egypt]] was for so long an independent and self-contained state. The [[Hyksos]] were among the earliest foreign rulers of Egypt, but the ancient Egyptians regained control of their country after the Hykso period. The [[Neo-Assyrian Empire]] also controlled Egypt for a while before native Egyptians regained control. Once Egypt did succumb to foreign rule, however, it proved unable to escape from it, and for 2,400 years, Egypt was governed by a series of [[Historical powers|foreign powers]]: the [[Nubians]], [[Persian Empire|Persians]], [[Macedon]]ians, [[Roman Empire|Romans]], [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantines]], [[Ottoman Empire|Ottomans]], [[French Invasion of Egypt|French]], and [[British Empire|British]]. During these 2,400 years, Egypt was independently governed under the [[Ptolemaic dynasty|Ptolemies]], [[Ikhshidid dynasty|Ikhshidids]], [[Fatimid]]s, [[Ayyubid dynasty|Ayyubids]], [[Mamluk]]s and [[History of Egypt under the Muhammad Ali dynasty|Muhammad Ali]]. The founders and rulers of these governments, however, were not native to Egypt. When [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] ([[President of Egypt]]) (1954–1970) remarked that he was the first [[Egyptians|native Egyptian]] to exercise sovereign power in the country since [[Pharaoh]] [[Nectanebo II]], deposed by the Persians in [[343 BC]], he was only exaggerating slightly. In this encyclopedia, Egyptian history has been divided into eight periods: *[[History of ancient Egypt]]: [[3100 BC]] to [[525 BC]] *[[History of Achaemenid Egypt]]: [[525 BC]] to [[332 BC]] *[[History of Ptolemaic Egypt]]: [[332 BC]] to [[30 BC]] *[[History of Roman Egypt]]: [[30 BC]] to AD [[639]] *[[History of Arab Egypt]]: [[639]] to [[1517]] *[[History of Ottoman Egypt]]: [[1517]] to [[1805]] *[[History of Egypt under the Muhammad Ali dynasty]]: [[1805]] to [[1882]] *[[History of modern Egypt]]: since [[1882]] ==See also== *[[Aegyptus]] *[[Ancient Egypt]] *[[Egyptian mythology]] *[[Egyptians]] *[[History of Africa]] *[[History of the Middle East]] *[[Pharaoh]] *[[History of Ancient Egypt]] *[[Coptic history]] ==External links== *[http://www.aldokkan.com/ Ancient Egyptian Civilization - Aldokkan] *[http://www.mysteries-in-stone.co.uk Ancient Egyptian History] - A comprehensive & concise educational website focusing on the basic and the advanced in all aspects of Ancient Egypt *[http://st-takla.org/Egypt-1.html Egypt.. the past and the present] *[http://vlib.iue.it/history/chronological/ancient_egypt.html WWW-VL: History: Ancient Egypt] {{History of Africa}} {{History of Asia}} [[Category:Ancient Egypt|*]] [[Category:History of Egypt| ]] [[Category:National histories|Egypt]] [[ar:تاريخ مصر]] [[bn:মিশরের ইতিহাস]] [[be:Гісторыя Егіпта]] [[ca:Història d'Egipte]] [[cs:Dějiny Egypta]] [[da:Ægyptens historie]] [[de:Geschichte der Republik Ägypten]] [[es:Historia de Egipto]] [[fr:Histoire de l'Égypte]] [[gl:Historia do Exipto]] [[it:Storia dell'Egitto]] [[he:היסטוריה של מצרים]] [[la:Historia Aegypta]] [[lt:Egipto istorija]] [[hu:Egyiptom történelme]] [[nl:Geschiedenis van Egypte]] [[ja:エジプトの歴史]] [[no:Egypts historie]] [[nn:Egyptisk historie]] [[oc:Istòria d'Egipte]] [[pt:História do Egipto]] [[ru:История Египта]] [[sk:Dejiny starovekého Egypta]] [[sr:Историја Египта]] [[fi:Egyptin historia]] [[sv:Egyptens historia]] [[vi:Lịch sử Ai Cập]] [[uk:Історія Єгипту]] [[vec:Storia de l'Egito]] [[zh:埃及历史]]