Friday, January 28, 2011

History of Egypt

Egyptian history can be roughly divided into the following periods:
Prehistoric Egypt
Ancient Egypt
Early Dynastic Period of Egypt: 31st to 27th centuries BC
Old Kingdom of Egypt: 27th to 22nd centuries BC
First Intermediate Period: 22nd to 21st centuries BC
Middle Kingdom of Egypt: 21st to 17th centuries BC
Second Intermediate Period: ca. 1640 to 1570 BC
New Kingdom of Egypt: 1570 to 1070 BC
Third Intermediate Period and 1070 to 664 BC
Late Period of ancient Egypt
Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt: 664 to 525 BC
Achaemenid Egypt: 525 to 332 BC
Greco-Roman Egypt
Ptolemaic Egypt: 332 to 30 BC
Roman Egypt: 30 BC to AD 395
Byzantine Egypt: 395 to 645
Islamic Egypt
Arab Egypt: 639 to 1250
Mamluk Egypt: 1250 to 1517
Ottoman Egypt: 1517 to 1805
Modern Egypt
Egypt under the Muhammad Ali dynasty: 1805 to 1882
Modern Egypt: since 1882

(source:wikipedia)

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