''Egyptian'' describes something of, from, or related to

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

. Egyptian or Egyptians may refer to:

Nations and ethnic groups

Egyptians Egyptians (, ; , ; ) are an ethnic group native to the Nile, Nile Valley in Egypt. Egyptian identity is closely tied to Geography of Egypt, geography. The population is concentrated in the Nile Valley, a small strip of cultivable land stretchi ...

, a national group in North Africa **

Egyptian culture The culture of Egypt has thousands of years of recorded history. A cradle of civilization, Ancient Egypt was among the earliest civilizations in the world. For millennia, Egypt developed strikingly unique, complex and stable cultures that influe ...

, a complex and stable culture with thousands of years of

recorded history Recorded history or written history describes the historical events that have been recorded in a written form or other documented communication which are subsequently evaluated by historians using the historical method. For broader world h ...

Egyptian cuisine Egyptian cuisine makes heavy use of poultry, legumes, vegetables and fruit from Egypt's rich Nile Valley and Delta. Examples of Egyptian dishes include rice-stuffed vegetables and grape leaves, hummus, falafel, shawarma, kebab and kofta ...

, the local culinary traditions of Egypt *

, the modern country in northeastern Africa **

Egyptian Arabic Egyptian Arabic, locally known as Colloquial Egyptian, or simply as Masri, is the most widely spoken vernacular Arabic variety in Egypt. It is part of the Afro-Asiatic language family, and originated in the Nile Delta in Lower Egypt. The esti ...

, the language spoken in contemporary Egypt ** A citizen of Egypt; see

Demographics of Egypt Egypt is the most populous country in the Middle East, and the third-most populous on the African continent, after Nigeria, Ethiopia. About 95% of the country's 104 million people (July 2023) live along the banks of the Nile and in the Nile ...

Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt () was a cradle of civilization concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in Northeast Africa. It emerged from prehistoric Egypt around 3150BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology), when Upper and Lower E ...

, a civilization from c. 3200 BC to 343 BC **

Ancient Egyptians Ancient Egypt () was a cradle of civilization concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in Northeast Africa. It emerged from prehistoric Egypt around 3150BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology), when Upper and Lower ...

, ethnic people of ancient Egypt **

Ancient Egyptian architecture Spanning over three thousand years, ancient Egypt was not one stable civilization but in constant change and upheaval, commonly History of ancient Egypt, split into periods by historians. Likewise, ancient Egyptian architecture is not one style, ...

, the architectural structure style **

Ancient Egyptian cuisine The cuisine of ancient Egypt covers a span of over three thousand years, but still retained many consistent traits until well into Greco-Roman times. The staples of both poor and wealthy Egyptians were bread and beer, often accompanied by green- ...

, the cuisine of ancient Egypt **

Egyptian language The Egyptian language, or Ancient Egyptian (; ), is an extinct branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages that was spoken in ancient Egypt. It is known today from a large corpus of surviving texts, which were made accessible to the modern world ...

, the oldest known language of Egypt and a branch of the Afroasiatic language family *

Copts Copts (; ) are a Christians, Christian ethnoreligious group, ethnoreligious group native to Northeast Africa who have primarily inhabited the area of modern Egypt since antiquity. They are, like the broader Egyptians, Egyptian population, des ...

, the ethnic Egyptian Christian minority **

Coptic language Coptic () is a dormant language, dormant Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language. It is a group of closely related Egyptian dialects, representing the most recent developments of the Ancient Egyptian language, Egyptian language, and histori ...

or Coptic Egyptian, the latest stage of the Egyptian language, spoken in Egypt until the 17th century, surviving in Coptic liturgy *

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a.k.a. Gypsy, an ethnic group living mostly in Europe and the Americas ** Egyptians (Balkans), an Albanian-speaking ethnic minority of Kosovo and Macedonia

Culture and Religion

* Egyptian mythology * Kemetism (ancient Egyptian religion)

Art and entertainment

* Egyptian (band), an American indie rock band * The Egyptians (band), an English band * ''The Egyptian'', a 1945 historical novel by Mika Waltari * The Egyptian (film), ''The Egyptian'' (film), a 1954 film by Michael Curtiz, based on Waltari's novel * Piano Concerto No. 5 (Saint-Saëns) a.k.a. ''The Egyptian'', a piano concerto by Camille Saint-Saëns

Other uses

* Egyptian (typeface), a type of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs * The Egyptian (prophet), a nameless 1st-century messianic revolt leader * Little Egypt (region), something of, from, or related to the region of Southern Illinois * Egyptian Lover (born 1963), American musician, vocalist, producer and DJ * Egyptian Healy (1866–1899), pitcher for Major League Baseball in the 19th century * Egyptian (ship), various ships with that name * Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, Wikipedia in Egyptian dialect of Arabic

Nations and ethnic groups

Culture and Religion

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