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April 13, 2006	WikiProject peer review	Reviewed
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Section sizes

Section size for Egypt (52 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	23,421	23,421
Names	9,910	9,910
History	89	65,006
Prehistory and Ancient Egypt	8,061	8,061
Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt	2,767	2,767
Middle Ages (7th century – 1517)	4,171	4,171
Early modern period: Ottoman Egypt (1517–1867)	9,146	9,146
Sultanate and Kingdom of Egypt	8,510	8,510
Republican Egypt under Nasser (1952–1970)	1,095	1,095
Egypt under Sadat and Mubarak (1971–2011)	12,185	12,185
Revolution, political crisis and transition (2011–present)	18,982	18,982
Geography	3,845	10,832
Climate	3,904	3,904
Biodiversity	3,083	3,083
Government	5,949	32,564
Foreign relations	6,609	6,609
Military	5,150	5,150
Law	4,403	13,189
Human rights	7,861	7,861
Freedom of the press	925	925
Administrative divisions	1,667	1,667
Economy	12,487	27,079
Tourism	1,671	1,671
Energy	2,988	2,988
Transport	5,514	5,514
Water supply and sanitation	4,419	4,419
Demographics	5,951	37,281
Ethnic groups	1,577	1,577
Languages	2,200	2,200
Religion	15,539	15,539
Education	5,031	5,031
Health	4,877	4,877
Largest cities	2,106	2,106
Culture	2,809	23,731
Arts	1,285	1,285
Literature	2,512	2,512
Media	1,467	1,467
Cinema	3,633	3,633
Music	1,276	1,276
Dances	485	485
Museums	2,207	2,207
Festivals	586	586
Cuisine	1,223	1,223
Sports	6,248	6,248
See also	108	108
Notes	26	26
References	30	30
External links	182	3,327
Government	877	877
History	370	370
Tourism	106	106
Maps	1,792	1,792
Total	233,315	233,315

Ignored Linear B, A name

The article only mentions the supposed origin for copt (it seems to have been originally for a cat), however the older attestation for Misr in that text from the same region is ignored a Linear B tablet also has Misr in it. d mi-sa-ra-jo (Misraios, also etymologically ‘man of Egypt’ [MiÒr] (KN F 841.4) (cf. SHELMERDINE 2008, §5.4.2.2, BENNET, J. 1985, The Structure of the Linear B Administration at Knossos, AJA 89, 231-49), not to mention it is likely older "(misr), more commonly found in Akkadian and Ugaritic documents from Syro-Palestine and Mesopotamia (Cline 1993: 18). Mis-sa-ra-jo appears on Knossos tablet KN F 841+867, possibly used as a man’s name, which Cline believes was meant to be pronounced as Misraios (Cline 1994: 128).

And undounbtedly older still its attestation as Misr in Linear A (CH # 333, A1) (Best & Woudhuizen 1988: 50-51; most recently and comprehensively Achterberge.a. 2004: 104; Landau 1958: 270. Cf. Luwian hieroglyphic Mizra “Egypt” (Karkamis A6, § 4), see Woudhuizen 2015a: 280 and the composite personal name Mizramuwas) in the oldest dated Minoan Tablet.

Further references for Misr in Linear texts https://www.jstor.org/stable/3853586

https://books.google.com/books?id=7KemAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT133&lpg=PT133&dq=misraios+linear&source=bl&ots=Zxoo0-1hY7&sig=ACfU3U2maplXzvLYndDdT400MVDR6Cx4fQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjczsnlmOzxAhUUOs0KHbFVBHoQ6AEwEHoECBQQAw#v=onepage&q=misraios%20&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=VOsUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=%22mi-sa-ra-jo%22&source=bl&ots=GqJzZXqicW&sig=ACfU3U2ehtSiZWXcs0q-eRcrhcZQTE_wmw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjlj8e8mOzxAhX8B50JHetUApQQ6AEwBHoECAoQAw#v=onepage&q=%22mi-sa-ra-jo%22&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=EHu-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT1213&lpg=PT1213&dq=linear+A+museum+tablet+misraios&source=bl&ots=SK7P7ajcNZ&sig=ACfU3U1uKklU43-uagxpqBBp8JqSKIwuXA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjngKDKpuzxAhXLZc0KHbcVArYQ6AEwB3oECBYQAw#v=onepage&q=linear%20A%20museum%20tablet%20misraios&f=false

http://www.palaeolexicon.com/Word/Show/26969

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4433744?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

https://www.academia.edu/1547735/Politics_of_the_sea_in_the_Late_Bronze_Age_II_III_Aegean_Iconographic_preferences_and_textual_perspectives

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/memories-into-images-aegean-and-aegeanlike-objects-in-new-kingdom-egyptian-theban-tombs/73A212AC959151082FCCF4022403D540

hyperlink to "Israel"

In describing the countries that Egypt borders, the hyperlink for Israel, and only Israel was removed. This is obviously anti-Israel bias and is inappropriate. They hyperlink should be restored. 75.168.207.230 (talk) 06:21, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Libya and Sudan were also not linked, so put your outrage aside. Largoplazo (talk) 11:59, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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"In the elections of June 2014 El-Sisi won with a percentage of 96.1%"

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"In the elections of June 2014 El-Sisi won with a percentage of 96.1%" Inktaap (talk) 18:45, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done He hadn't been mentioned since the lead, it needed his full name there too. Largoplazo (talk) 19:12, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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There are also more than three million Egyptians working abroad, mainly in Libya, Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf and Europe.

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There are also more than three million Egyptians working abroad, mainly in Libya, Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf and Europe. Inktaap (talk) 19:23, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I can't see the difference between the two. M.Bitton (talk) 18:15, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not in Reference given

Because i dont work on this page I am not sure why this reference is used in reference to the color of the desert: Muḥammad Jamāl al-Dīn Mukhtār (1990). Ancient Civilizations of Africa. Currey. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-85255-092-2. Archived from the original on 31 January 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2016. There is nothing on that page that speaks about km.t, which means black land, likely referring to the fertile black soils of the Nile flood plains, distinct from the deshret (⟨dšṛt⟩), or "red land" of the desertHausa warrior (talk) 00:01, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]