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Eguafo
Eguafo was an Akan coastal kingdom on the Gold Coast of West Africa, in what is now Ghana's Central Region, documented from 1503 and surviving as the Eguafo Traditional Area.
Egungun
Egungun (Egúngún) is a Yoruba masquerade tradition in which costumed performers make ancestral spirits visible among the living, practiced since at least the fifteenth century in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo.
Egusi
Egusi: West African name for seed crops of several cucurbits, chiefly Citrullus mucosospermus (egusi melon) and Cucumeropsis mannii, whose oil- and protein-rich seeds thicken egusi soup; Nigeria is the top producer.
EGX Bond LLC
EGX Bond LLC is a Wyoming-registered limited liability company, formed in 2022 and based in Centerville, Utah, issuing 9% asset-backed bonds that fund a claimed $1.5 billion loan to Enegra Group.
Egyin
Egyin (Burmese: ဧချင်း), also spelled ainggyin, is a Burmese poetic genre of four-syllable internally rhymed lines, known as fifteenth-century courtly ballads and as folk poetry about village life sung by women.
EGYM (company)
EGYM is a Munich-based fitness-technology company founded in 2010 by Florian Sauter and Philipp Rösch-Schlanderer, selling connected gym equipment, training software, and the Wellpass corporate-wellness network.
Egypt (مصر)
Egypt (مصر), the Arab Republic of Egypt, is the most populous Arab country, over 108 million people, on the Nile and Suez Canal. A lower middle-income economy under IMF programs, facing 33.5% poverty, water scarcity at 570 m³ per capita, and inflation that fell from 38% to 13.4%.
Egypt Mons
Egypt Mons is an IAU-named mountain (mons) on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, approved 1997, about 194-219 km across near 41.5 degrees south; named for where the mythological Io ended her wanderings.
Egypt national football team
Egypt national football team, the Pharaohs, governed by the Egyptian Football Association; record seven-time AFCON champions (1957-2010) and first African World Cup entrant (1934). Won its first World Cup match and reached the knockout stage in 2026 under Hossam Hassan with Mohamed Salah.
Egypt Sherrod
Egypt Sherrod (born 1976), Philadelphia-born American TV host, real estate broker and CEO of Indigo Road Realty; hosted HGTV's Property Virgins and Flipping Virgins and co-hosted Married to Real Estate with husband Mike Jackson.
Egypt Station
Egypt Station is Paul McCartney's studio album of new songs, released 7 September 2018 on Capitol Records; produced mainly by Greg Kurstin except "Fuh You" (Ryan Tedder, Zach Skelton), titled after McCartney's 1988 painting, and his first number-one album in 36 years.
Egypt–Israel peace treaty
Egypt–Israel peace treaty, signed March 26, 1979 by Sadat and Begin under Carter's mediation after the Camp David Accords; first Israel-Arab peace treaty, returning Sinai to Egypt, establishing diplomatic relations, and holding for over 45 years.
Egyptair (مصر للطيران)
Egyptair (مصر للطيران) is Egypt's state-owned flag carrier, founded in 1932 as the first airline in the Middle East and Africa, flying from its hub at Cairo International Airport.
EgyptAir Flight 804
EgyptAir Flight 804 was a scheduled Paris-to-Cairo passenger flight operated with an Airbus A320 that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on 19 May 2016, killing all 66 on board.
EgyptAir Flight 990
EgyptAir Flight 990 was a scheduled Los Angeles–Cairo flight whose Boeing 767 crashed into the Atlantic near Nantucket on October 31, 1999, killing all 217 aboard.
Egyptian Air Force (القوات الجوية المصرية)
Egyptian Air Force (القوات الجوية المصرية, EAF), Egypt's air warfare branch: ~1,088 aircraft, largest fleet in Africa, flying F-16s, 54 Rafales, and MiG-29s; 85% destroyed in 1967, rebuilt with Soviet aid before 1973; no tanker fleet; Air Force Day 14 October.
Egyptian Arabic
Egyptian Arabic (العامية المصرية) is the spoken Arabic of Egypt, in diglossia with Modern Standard Arabic. Cairene ج as g and ق as glottal stop, b- present prefix, Coptic, Turkish, French, English loans, and media-driven regional intelligibility distinguish it.
Egyptian Armed Forces (القوات المسلحة المصرية)
Egyptian Armed Forces (القوات المسلحة المصرية), Egypt's military establishment of Army, Navy, Air Force, and Air Defense Forces; about 438,500 active personnel, third-largest world arms importer 2015–2019, and a major state economic actor since 2013.
Egyptian Army (الجيش المصري)
Egyptian Army (الجيش المصري), land branch of Egypt's armed forces: 438,500 active personnel nationwide, 1 to 3 years conscription, GFP 2026 rank 19 of 145, about 1,200 locally built M1A1 Abrams, and since 1952 a dominant political and economic actor.
Egyptian Army in the Sudan
The Egyptian Army in the Sudan (الجيش المصري في السودان) was the military arm of Turco-Egyptian rule in Sudan, founded by Muhammad Ali in 1820–21 to recruit soldiers.
Egyptian calendar
The Egyptian calendar, also called the Egyptian civil year, was the fixed 365-day calendar of ancient Egypt, whose months drifted through the seasons and survives as the Coptic calendar.
Egyptian campaigns in Nubia under Sneferu
Military raids by the Fourth Dynasty Egyptian king Sneferu against Nubia, known from the Palermo Stone annals, which record 60 boats, 7,000 captives, and 200,000 livestock taken around 2600 BC.
Egyptian cobra
Egyptian cobra (Naja haje), large non-spitting African elapid of the subgenus Uraeus, ranging Morocco to Tanzania; 3FTx-dominated neurotoxic venom; monospecific antivenom outperforms polyvalent Inoserp-MENA in Morocco.
Egyptian conquest of Darfur
The Egyptian conquest of Darfur was the 1874 overthrow of the independent Keira Sultanate by slave-trader al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur, fighting on behalf of the Khedive of Egypt.
Egyptian conquest of Equatoria and Bahr el Ghazal
The Egyptian conquest of Equatoria and Bahr el Ghazal (فتح الاستوائية) was the extension of Turco-Egyptian rule from Sudan south of Gondokoro from 1869, creating Equatoria province.
Egyptian conquest of Kerma
The Egyptian conquest of Kerma was a series of campaigns by Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty pharaohs against the Kingdom of Kush at Kerma in Upper Nubia, ending with Thutmose III's victory.
Egyptian Constitution of 1923
The Egyptian Constitution of 1923 (دستور ١٩٢٣) was the fundamental law of the Kingdom of Egypt, promulgated by King Fuad I in 1923 and abolished in 1952.
Egyptian copies of the Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty
The Egyptian copies of the Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty are two hieroglyphic inscriptions at Karnak and the Ramesseum recording the peace accord between Ramesses II and Hattusili III.
Egyptian Crisis (2011–2014)
Egyptian Crisis (2011–2014): the Arab Spring upheaval from the January 25, 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, through SCAF rule, Mohamed Morsi's election and July 2013 military ouster, the Rabaa massacre, and al-Sisi's 2014 rise.
Egyptian cuisine
Egyptian cuisine is the cooking tradition of Egypt, a plant-forward Nile Valley cuisine built on fava beans, lentils, bread, and rice, with a history reaching back 5,000 years.