Sentence examples similar to Egyptian river from inspiring English sources
Citadel Capital, Egypt's largest venture-capital firm, has secured $21m from European development banks for an Egyptian river-transport fund.But investors are still wary.
The ancient Egyptians called the river Ar or Aur (Coptic: Iaro), "Black," in allusion to the colour of the sediments carried by the river when it is in flood.
Egyptian agriculture is wholly dependent upon the river and the vast majority of the country's population lives along its banks, but the question of who has a right to the water has long been contentious.
Even though 95% of Egyptians live by the river, less than 1% of the goods they need are moved on it.
An article on Saturday about a German woman's account of her former marriage to an Egyptian Islamic militant misidentified the river that runs through Heidelberg, the German town where he attended a mosque and became committed to the Islamic cause.
The Egyptians built shrines along the river containing images of animals and dwarfs rejoicing at the goddess' arrival.
In Diodorus's version, however, the draining of the river prompted the Egyptians (whom Thucydides does not mention) to defect and surrender to the Persians.
The Euphrates was the first major river which the Egyptians had ever encountered which flowed from the north, which was downstream on the Nile, to the south, which was upstream on the Nile.
Egyptian Interior Ministry/AP.
