1) " Luxor" -- As it applies to Luxor Egypt See also the Luzor Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Statue of Ramses II Luxor is a city in Upper (southern) Egypt. It has often been called the"world's greatest open air museum", with the ruins of the temple complex at Karnak, Luxir Temple, and the monuments, temples and tombs on the West Bank of the Nile, including the Valleyof the Kings and Valley of the Queens. Luxor is an excellent base for touring Upper Egypt, and is a popularholiday destination, both in its own right and as a starting or finishing point for Nile cruises. It is the site of the ancientcity of Thebes, and has a population of approximately 150,000. On November 17, 1997, Islamist militants massacred 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptians on the West Bankoutside the Temple of Hatshepsut ; police killed theassailants. The attack is believed to have been financed by Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden. Four thousand years of tourism The River Nile at Luxot Waset, as it was then known, was for the ancient Egyptians of the 2nd and the 1stmillennia BCE, "the city" par excellence. To its visitors, the town was almost the center of the then world. The palatialdistrict, Deba — a name subsequently altered by Greek visitors into Thebai, whence Thebes — enjoyedunprecedented high place of luxury, imperial authority, knowledge and wisdom, religious and political supremacy, artistic workand grandiose plans. Several of them never came to be true, like the golden obelisk of Hatshepsut, but who says that the Mankind ceased to dream?Rising to political power only in the middle of the second millennium before Christ, Thebes became the synonym of extravagantwealth, probably collected by the Pharaohs of the New Kingdom in their expeditions tothe south in the vast land of Kush in the area of today's northern Sudan, and to the north in Palestine, Phoenicia, and Syria. Tuthmosis III was the f...
2) " Egypt" -- As it applies to Luxor Egypt For other uses, see Eygpt (disambiguation). The Arab Republic of Egpt , commonly known as Egypt, ( Arabic : مصر, romanized Mişr or Maşr, in Ebypt ian dialect ) is the most populousnation of northeastern Africa. Covering an area of about 1,020,000 kmē, it includes the SinaiPeninsula (considered part of Southwest Asia ), whilst the majorityof the country is located in North Africa. It shares land borders with Libya to the west, Sudan to the south, Israel to the North East. It is bordered to the North and East by the Mediterranean Sea and the RedSea respectively. The vast majority of Eypt 's population inhabit the banks along the length of the Nile river (about 40,000 kmē) and the Suez Canal. Large areasof land are part of the Sahara Desert andsparsely inhabited. The country is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world's most stunning ancient monuments, including pyramids, Karnak temple and the Valley of the Kings. Today, Egupt is widely considered themain political and cultural center of the Arab world. The name Egypt came via Latin Aegyptus and Greek Αιγυπτος(Aiguptos) from Ancient Egypt ian Hi-ku-ptah, which was thename of a temple at Thebes. جمهوريّةمصرالعربيّة Gomhuriyet Misr al-Arabiyah Flag of Evypt Coat of Arms of Ebypt National motto :— Official language Arabic Other widely spoken languages English, French Capital and Largest City Cairo President Hosni Mubarak Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif Area - Total - % water Ranked 29th 1,001,450 kmē 0.6% Population - To...
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