Egypt


 
 
Egypt

Misr, the Arabic and official name for modern Egypt, is of Semitic origin directly cognate with the Hebrew ????????? Misr?yim meaning "the two straits", and possibly means "a country" or "a state." The ancient name for the country, kemet, or "black land," is derived from the fertile black soils deposited by the Nile floods, distinct from the 'red land' (deshret) of the desert. This name became keme in a later stage of Coptic. The English name "Egypt" came via the Latin word Aegyptus derived from the ancient Greek word ???????? Aiguptos (see also List of traditional Greek place names), which in turn is derived from the ancient Egyptian phrase ?wt-k3-pt? ("Hwt ka Ptah") meaning "home of the Ka (part of the soul) of Ptah," the name of a temple of the god Ptah at Memphis. For details see the article Copt.


 

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Introduction
Origin and history of the name
History
Politics
Governorates
Foreign relations
Economy
Demographics
Geography
Culture
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References
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