10 résultats pour "cairo"
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Cairo (Egypt) - geography.
of the city's oldest architectural monuments can be found. Old Cairo is the home of Cairo's Coptic Christian community, and the site of the Coptic Museum and a number ofCoptic churches. The irrigation of Cairo's desert periphery has allowed for the development of suburbs, such as Heliopolis, located to the northeast. Other modern suburbs are interspersedwith recently created migrant neighborhoods that accommodate the city's growing population. Industrial areas further crowd the city, restricting...
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El Cairo - geografía.
Cairo, fundada en 1919, donde los niños egipcios de clase alta conviven con estudiantes y profesores extranjeros, lo que aporta un elemento occidental a la mezclacosmopolita de la ciudad. Una disciplina académica gira en torno a la conservación y exposición del pasado que se muestra en las colecciones de los museos de El Cairo. ElMuseo Egipcio, construido en el año 1900, posee miles de magníficas piezas, entre las que se incluyen más de 1.700 de la colección del faraón Tutankamón. El Museo deArt...
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Cairo (Egypt) - geography.
Prize-winning author and Cairo native Naguib Mahfouz, whose fiction has provided a chronicle of the city. VI POINTS OF INTEREST The pyramids of Egypt, which served as tombs for the ancient pharaohs, and the statue of the Sphinx, which dates from about 2500 BC and is probably the country's most famous monument, are located just west of Cairo in the suburb of Giza. Depite the desert background usually depicted in photographs, the pyramids areextremely close to Cairo and are likely to be affecte...
- El Cairo - (exposé en espagnol).
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Egypt - country.
Egypt has a wide variety of mineral deposits, some of which, such as gold and red granite, have been exploited since ancient times. The chief mineral resource ofcontemporary value is petroleum, found mainly in the Red Sea coastal region, at Al ‘Alamayn (El ‘Alamein) on the Mediterranean, and on the Sinai Peninsula. Otherminerals include phosphates, manganese, iron ore, and uranium. Natural gas is also extracted. D Plants and Animals The vegetation of Egypt is confined largely to the Nile Delta,...
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Egipto (república) - geografía.
costa mediterránea. El limo que depositan los afluentes Rosetta (en árabe, Rashid ), Damieta (en árabe, Dumyat ) y otros más hacen del delta la región más fértil del país. Sin embargo, la presa de Asuán ha reducido el caudal del Nilo, causando que las aguas saladas del Mediterráneo penetren en el terreno a lo largo de la costa cercana a ladesembocadura del Nilo. Una serie de cuatro lagos poco profundos y salobres se extienden por la zona del delta en contacto con el mar. Otro gran lago, Birkat...
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Arte egipcio.
único del faraón. 3.1 Arquitectura Pirámides de GizehEste vídeo nos ofrece un breve recorrido por una de las siete maravillas del mundo, las pirámides de Gizeh, cerca de El Cairo (Egipto),construidas para albergar la tumba de los faraones Keops, Kefrén y Mikerinos. Junto a ellas también se levanta la misteriosa figura dela Gran Esfinge, con cuerpo de león y cabeza humana.ORF Enterprise Ges.m.b.H Durante las primeras dinastías se construyeron importantes complejos funerarios para los faraones en...
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Arte egipcio - historia.
único del faraón. 3.1 Arquitectura Pirámides de GizehEste vídeo nos ofrece un breve recorrido por una de las siete maravillas del mundo, las pirámides de Gizeh, cerca de El Cairo (Egipto),construidas para albergar la tumba de los faraones Keops, Kefrén y Mikerinos. Junto a ellas también se levanta la misteriosa figura dela Gran Esfinge, con cuerpo de león y cabeza humana.ORF Enterprise Ges.m.b.H Durante las primeras dinastías se construyeron importantes complejos funerarios para los faraones en...
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Chiang Kai-shek - History.
Even one of Chiang's allied commanders, Zhang Xueliang, who had been expelled from Manchuria after the Mukden Incident, came to doubt the wisdom of Chiang'sapproach. In 1936 Zhang held Chiang prisoner in Xi'an until Chiang agreed to join the Communists in an allied front against Japan. Chiang later denied making anyagreement. On July 7, 1937, near the Marco Polo Bridge on the outskirts of Beijing, a Chinese patrol and Japanese troops on a training exercise clashed, and full-scalewar broke out be...
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Scramble for Africa.
additional territorial grabs. The most significant of these rules stated that colonial powers were obligated to notify each other when they claimed African territory.Further, subsequent “effective occupation” of the claimed area was necessary for the claim to remain valid. Through it all, as Europeans negotiated their rights toAfrican territory, not a single African was present. Once the conference was over, it was clear that a European Scramble for African territories was underway. Southern Afr...