Why it is called (Egypt & Cairo) ?
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The English name "Egypt" came via the Latin word Aegyptus derived from the ancient Greek word Αίγυπτος (Aigyptos). According to Strabo, Αίγυπτος (Aigyptos), in ancient Greek meant "below the Aegean" (Aἰγαίου ὑπτίως, "Aegaeou uptiōs"), and was formed by the combination of the two words. It has also been suggested that the word is a corruption of the ancient Egyptian phrase ḥwt-k3-ptḥ meaning "home of the Ka (Soul) of Ptah", the name of a temple of the god Ptah at Memphis.\n\nCairo in arabic is "al Qahira" which means "Triumphant".
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Check this site:\nhttp://www.funsms.net/egypt.htm
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That's a very good (and sligthly difficult) question! People have been interested in the history of Egypt for a long time, in fact it was all the rage in ancient Greece after Herodotus wrote a sort of travel book on the region in the 5th century BC!\nDespite this, and all the research and archealogy in the region over the years, there's still a lot we don't really know about early Egypt...\n\nPeople were probably beginning to settle down along the Nile as long ago as 6000 BC, and the size of settlements apprently began to grow quite rapidly after around 4000 BC. After about 3500 BC there's evidence of towns with bud-brick buildings and what we now call Egypt seems to have been split loosely into  two smaller kingdoms: Lower Egypt, along the north of the Nile and its delta, and Upper Egypt, along the southern part of the Nile river.\nThe exact details are a bit of a mystery, but around 3100 BC a King from Upper Egypt defeated the King of the Delta and united the country for the first time.\n\nBefore the unification we call the 'Predynastic period' and after this came the 'Early dynastic period', which could be considered the beginning of a single reign of Egypt.\n\nThere were many more dynasties in Egypt, including a period we call 'The Old Kingdom', which is when Egypt's most famous landmarks were built - the pyramids!\n\nIf you want to know more, there's a very good website from the British Museum at http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html
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It describes the poverty in some arias of Rio de Janeiro.Hmm..good question..If it shows poor people,and violence,why is it called "City of GOD"?Why of God?Mabe because it ilustrates a city forgotten by Him..There is also a book called"The city of God" that illustrates the conflict between the city of man,and that one of God.Mabe they were inspired in some way by this book...
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Yes, there was one in Egypt. . .
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"Back in the day", street names were often just given based on where the road went.  If the road went to London, it was called London Road.  If the road was the main street in the town, it was called Main Street.\n\nNowadays, property developers normally include street name proposals in the plans they put forward to the local councils for approval and planning permission
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egypt, beside the pyramids
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The Greeks called Constantinople POLI,since it means CITY\n Even today if you ask a Greek who is going to visit Istanbul where are you going? he will tell you IS TIN POLIN.That means I am going to the CITY.So I think this is the reason it is now called Istanbul
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From about 6000 BC various communities of hunter-gatherers make the Nile and Egypt the centre of their territory, around which they roam. But the drying of the Sahara increasingly confines them to the river area. The unusual habit of this great river - flooding every year and depositing a layer of rich moist soil on the surrounding region - is ideally suited to the development of settled agriculture. The river takes upon itself two otherwise laborious tasks, irrigation and the enriching of the soil.\n\nBy about 3100 BC these communities have become sufficiently prosperous and stable to be united in a single political entity - the first Egyptian dynasty.\n  \nThe first dynasty: from c.3100 BC\nThe unifying of Upper and Lower Egypt into a single kingdom is the event pointed to by the ancient Egyptians themselves as the beginning of their civilization. \nWhatever the name, the first historical dynasty is brought into being by the king or pharaoh who in about 3100 BC establishes control over the whole navigable length of the Nile. His is the first of thirty Egyptian dynasties, spanning nearly three millennia - an example of social continuity rivalled in human history only by China.\n\nNo one knows the name of this first dynasty definitively. King Narmer is thought to have reigned c. 3150 BCE as first king of the 1st dynasty (and/or last king of the 0 dynasty) of a unified ancient Egypt. But it is unclear if he actually existed.
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short answer is : coptic means Egyptian\n \nThe Arabs who invaded Egypt in, like the Greeks, had problems pronouncing the term, Aegypti, which means "Egyptian citizen". Essentially, they changed the word to Copti.\nwhich later became coptic in English\nOf course, at that time, Egypt was a Christian nation, so the term became limited to actual Egyptian Christians as the country became more and more Muslim. \n\ntoday coptic are about 10% of total population of Egypt\nmost of them are Orthodox (Coptic Orthodox)\nI am one of them :D
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Istanbul is widely recognized as the name of Turkey's most well known city, but it was not always this way, and even today some confusion over its proper name still exists. The confusion is rooted in the various names the city assumed under the Ottomans in the centuries after their conquest of the city in 1453. Although the Ottomans did not purposely change the city's name, they opted to make "Constantinople" into a more Turkish style name "Konstantiniye" (which loosely translates as "of Constantine"), however variations on Konstantiniye soon cropped up.\n"Stanbulin," (Greek for "to the city") once commonly found on road signs directing travelers to the capital, was punned by devout Turks into Islambol, where "Islam abounds." The names Islambol and Konstantiniye were used interchangeably in Ottoman documents up until the empire's demise in 1923. Westerners continued to refer to the city as Constantinople well into the 20th century. In the 19th century, however, the city's large foreign expatriate community took to calling the old city Stamboul. Western accounts of the old city during this period make regular references to the name.
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Try these sites.  They will give you lots of information about Egypt.
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Moussa is a variant of Musa (Moses) and means "the chosen one"\nIt has been used as a first or last name.\n\nIt is also an Italian name, derived from a place called Musa.
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madinat means "cities" in arabic\npeace out:)
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Which pyramid at Cairo are you referring to? Where abouts on the pyramid?\n\nAre you referring to the hieroglyphs? Hieroglyphs adorn most ancient buildings and tombs (Valley of the Kings, Karnak, Abu Simbel, etc.).
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The terms refer to the altitude ... since the Nile flows from Lake Victoria in the south to the Mediterranean Sea in the North, the southern part is Upper Egypt and the northern part is Lower Egypt.
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Sometimes Ships Are Named After Cities. Zion Is The City Of God. Not That He Lives There, As In Location. But It Belongs To Him.