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Lower Egypt

noun

One of the two main administrative districts of Egypt; consists of the Nile delta.

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... hardest time of my life. An epidemic of cholera had broken out in Lower Egypt. I was running about the town all day long in a scorching atmosphere. Cairo summers are overpowering to Europeans. We were going through the hottest weeks I had ever known. I heard one day that Selim, brought before the native court of Cairo, had been sentenced to death. ...

— A Mummer's Tale • Anatole France

... to the two Hapis—Mirit Qimait for Upper, and Mirit Mihit for Lower Egypt—personified the banks of the river. They are often represented as standing with outstretched arms, as though begging for the water which should make them fertile. The Nile-god had his chapel in every province, and priests whose right it was to bury all bodies of men or beasts ...

— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) • G. Maspero

Words linked to "Lower Egypt" : administrative division, Egypt, United Arab Republic, administrative district, territorial division, Arab Republic of Egypt