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Showing posts with label Egypt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Egypt. Show all posts

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Lake Nasser

               Lake Nasser ( بحيرة ناصر) ( Lake Nubia (بحيرة نوبية)), is a vast reservoir in southern Egypt, and northern Sudan, and is one of the largest man-made lakes in the world. The lake is some 550 km long and 35 km across at its widest point, which is near the Tropic of Cancer. It covers a total surface area of 5,250 km² and has a storage capacity of some 157 km³ of water. The lake was created as a result of the construction of the Aswan High Dam across the waters of the Nile between 1958 and 1971. 
               Several important archaeological sites with Nubians were dismantled block by block and moved to higher locations. These include the temple of Abu Simbel. The Sudanese river port and railway terminal of Wadi Halfa was covered by the waters and created a new city to replace it.

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Friday, December 28, 2012

Nile river

             Nile river ( النيل)  is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world. It is 6,650 km (4,130 miles) long. It runs through the ten countries of Sudan, South Sudan, Burundi, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Egypt. 
            The Nile has two major tributaries, the White Nile and Blue Nile. Nile is crossing the following cities: Jinja, Juba, Khartoum, Cairo.
            The Greek historian Herodotus wrote that "Egypt was the gift of the Nile". An unending source of sustenance, it provided a crucial role in the development of Egyptian civilization.

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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Libyan Desert

              Libyan Desert it extends approximately 1100 km from east to west, and 1,000 km from north to south, in about the shape of a rectangle. The desert features a striking diversity of landscapes including mountains such as Jebel Uweinat (1980 m), the Gilf Kebir plateau, and sand seas. 
              The Libyan Desert is barely populated apart from the modern settlements at oases of the lower Cyrenaica region in southeastern Libya. The indigenous population is Berber. In most of Upper Egypt, the desert is close to the Nile River, with a seasonal flood plain only a few kilometers wide between river and desert.  North of the Gilf Kebir plateau, among the shallow peripheral dunes of the southern Great Sand Sea, is a field of Libyan desert glass.

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Sinai desert

              Sinai desert ( سيناء ) is a desert situated in Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. It is situated between the Mediterranean Sea to the north, and the Red Sea to the south, and is the only part of Egyptian territory located in Asia as opposed to Africa, effectively serving as a land bridge between two continents.
             It is estimated that the Sinai Desert receives more than 1.6 million acre-feet (2 billion cubic metres) of water annually from local precipitation. About one-fourth of this water flows on the surface as runoff, and a similar amount percolates to groundwater reservoirs, thereby offering excellent opportunities for water conservation. The vegetation in the Sinai Desert is mostly ephemeral, but perennial scrub survives on the steep southern slopes and on the plateau to the north.

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Saturday, August 4, 2012

Sinai mountain

              Mount Sinai (Arabic: طور سيناء‎ Ṭūr Sīnā’; or جبل موسى Jabal Mūsá, Egyptian Arabic Gabal Musa, lit. "Moses' Mountain" or "Mount Moses"; Hebrew: הר סיני‎ Har Sinai), also known as Mount Horeb (χωρηβ), is a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt that is the traditional and most accepted identification of the Biblical Mount Sinai.
              Mount Sinai is a 2,285-metre (7,497 ft) high mountain near Saint Catherine in the Sinai region. The summit of the mountain has a mosque that is still used by Muslims. It also has a Greek Orthodox chapel, constructed in 1934 on the ruins of a 16th century church, that is not open to the public. The chapel encloses the rock which is considered to be the source for the biblical Tablets of Stone. At the summit also is "Moses' cave", where Moses was said to have waited to receive the Ten Commandments.

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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Cairo

           Cairo ( القاهرة) is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa. With a population of 6.76 million  spread over 453 square kilometers (175 sq mi), Cairo is by far the largest city in Egypt. With an additional ten million inhabitants just outside the city, Cairo resides at the centre of the largest metropolitan area in Africa and the eleventh-largest urban area in the world.
           The main objectives are Abdeen Palace ( قصر عابدين ), Ain Shams University ( جامعة عين شمس ), Al Azhar Park (حديقة الأزهر), Al Hakim mosque (الجامع الانور‎ ), Borg Al-Qāhira - Cairo tower ( برج القاهرة), Al Azhar Mosque ( الجامع الأزهر ) and University, Coptic museum, Gates of Cairo (ابواب القاهره), Grand Hyatt, Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan (جامع السلطان حسن ), Sheraton Hotel, French University of Egypt ( الجامعة الفرنسية في مصر), Cairo Opera House ( دار الأوبرا المصرية).

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Abdeen Palace Ain Shams University Al Azhar Mosque Al Azhar Park