The Order of the Nile (''Kiladat El Nil'') was established in 1915 and was one of the

Kingdom of Egypt The Kingdom of Egypt ( ar, المملكة المصرية, Al-Mamlaka Al-Miṣreyya, The Egyptian Kingdom) was the legal form of the Egyptian state during the latter period of the Muhammad Ali dynasty's reign, from the United Kingdom's recog ...

's principal orders until the monarchy was abolished in 1953. It was then reconstituted as the Republic of

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's highest state honor.

Sultanate and Kingdom of Egypt

The Order was established in 1915 by Sultan Hussein Kamel of Egypt for award to persons who had rendered useful service to the country. It ranked beneath the Order of Ismail and was frequently awarded to British officers and officials serving in Egypt, as well as distinguished Egyptian citizens.
The order comprised five classes:
# Grand Cordon: Badge worn from a sash over the right shoulder, with a star on the left chest. # Grand Officer: Badge worn around the neck, with a smaller star on the left chest. # Commander: Badge worn around the neck. # Officer: Badge worn on the left chest from a ribbon bearing a rosette. # Knight: Badge worn on the left chest from a plain ribbon.

Republic of Egypt

After Egypt became a republic in 1953 the Order of the Nile was reconstituted to serve as Egypt's highest state honor. It now consists of: # The Collar of the Nile, worn by the President of the Republic and may be granted to other

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. # The Order of the Nile, awarded for exceptional services to the nation. It has a single Grand Cordon class, with the badge of the order worn from a sash and the star of the order worn on the left chest. Although the five class structure of the original 1915 order was mentioned when the order was restructured in 1953, the four more junior grades are no longer awarded.

Some appointees to the order

Sultanate and Kingdom of Egypt (1915–1953)

* Brigadier Peter Acland (4th class), 1936 * Sir Pratap Singh of Idar (Grand Cordon), 1918 * Judge Sir Maurice Amos (Grand Cordon) * Maharaja

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of Kapurthala (Grand Cordon), 1924 * Rear Admiral Richard Bevan (4th Class), 1919 * Field Marshall Lord Birdwood * Lieutenant General Louis Bols * Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Borton VC, DSO (3rd Class) *

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, British archaeologist and Egyptologist (3rd Class), 1926 * Jovan Dučić * Major Aubrey Faulkner * Major General Harold Franklyn, Commandant

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, 1939 * Major Harry Gardner (4th Class), 1922 * Lieutenant Colonel

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, 1920 * Naguib Pasha Mahfouz, obstetrician and gynecologist, 1919 * Lieutenant Colonel

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* Earl Mountbatten of Burma, (fourth class), 1922 * Charles Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey, 1915 * General Sir William Peyton (2nd Class), 1916 * General Hussein Refki Pasha (Grand Cordon) * Admiral Francis Mitchell (Royal Navy officer) * Rear Admiral Eric Gascoigne Robinson * Captain George Francis Scott Elliot * Dr. Hassan Omar Shaheen - Professor of ENT Kasr El-Aini Hospital, Cairo. Circa 1920 * Major-General Sir Charlton Watson Spinks, last Sirdar of Egypt (Grand Cordon), 1931 * Dr. Oskar Stross, Austrian Consul General * Mervyn Whitfield, Political Branch, Public Security, Alexandria, 1917 * General Sir Reginald Wingate, 1915 * Judge Youssef Zulficar Pasha (Grand Cordon)

Republic of Egypt (from 1953)

* King Hussein of Jordan (1955) *Marshal

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* Dr Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, Islamic leader (Grand Cordon) * King

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* Mohamed ElBaradei, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) *

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(Grand Cordon) * Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Turkish academic, diplomat and former Secretary-General of the

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* Heinrich Rau, East German politician (Grand Cordon), 1961 * King

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* William E. Simon, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury *

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References

External links

* {{commonscat-inline, Order of the Nile Nile, Order of the Nile, Order of the Awards established in 1915 1915 establishments in Egypt