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  2. Souq (company) - Wikipedia

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    Amazon (2017–2021) [1] URL. www .souq .com. Souq.com was the largest e-commerce platform in the Arab world. The company launched in 2005 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. [2] On March 28, 2017, Amazon.com Inc. acquired Souq.com for $580 million as a subsidiary.

  3. Ptolemaic Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Although Egypt was a prosperous kingdom, with the Ptolemies lavishing patronage through religious monuments and public works, the native population enjoyed few benefits; wealth and power remained overwhelmingly in the hands of Greeks. Subsequently, uprising and social unrest were frequent, especially by the early third century BC.

  4. List of pharaohs - Wikipedia

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    Mentuhotep II [83] Mentuhotep II regained all Egypt c. 2015 BC, Middle Kingdom begins, becomes first pharaoh of Middle Kingdom. 2060–2040 BC [31] (King of Upper Egypt only) 2040–2009 BC [31] (King of Upper and Lower Egypt) Sankhkare. Mentuhotep III [84] Commanded the first expedition to Punt of the Middle Kingdom.

  5. Egypt extends crackdown on Gaza activism with student arrests

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    Hamas, Gaza's ruling Palestinian Islamist group, is an offshoot of the Brotherhood and Egypt helped Israel impose a blockade on Gaza after Hamas seized control of the territory in 2007.

  6. Ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa. It was concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River, situated in the place that is now the country Egypt. Ancient Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3100 BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology) [1] with the political unification ...

  7. Land of Goshen - Wikipedia

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    The land of Goshen ( Hebrew: אֶרֶץ גֹּשֶׁן, ʾEreṣ Gōšen) is named in the Hebrew Bible as the place in Egypt given to the Hebrews by the pharaoh of Joseph ( Book of Genesis, Genesis 45:9–10 ), and the land from which they later left Egypt at the time of the Exodus. It is believed to have been located in the eastern Nile Delta ...

  8. Prehistoric Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Prehistoric Egypt and Predynastic Egypt was the period of time starting at the first human settlement and ending at the First Dynasty of Egypt around 3100 BC.. At the end of prehistory, "Predynastic Egypt" is traditionally defined as the period from the final part of the Neolithic period beginning c. 6200 BC to the end of the Naqada III period c. 3000 BC.

  9. Dynasties of ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In ancient Egyptian history, dynasties are series of rulers sharing a common origin. They are usually, but not always, traditionally divided into 33 pharaonic dynasties; these dynasties are commonly grouped by modern scholars into "kingdoms" and "intermediate periods" . The first 30 divisions come from the 3rd century BC Egyptian priest ...