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As a result, ancient Egyptian artifacts provide sometimes conflicting and inconclusive evidence of the ethnicity of the people who lived in Egypt during dynastic times. [ 189 ] [ 190 ] In their own art, "Egyptians are often represented in a color that is officially called dark red", according to Diop. [ 191 ]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 January 2025. Ethnic group This article is about the contemporary Nile Valley ethnic group. For other uses, see Egyptian (disambiguation). For information on the population of Egypt, see Demographics of Egypt. Ethnic group Egyptians Total population 120 million (2017) Regions with significant ...
The Levantines in Egypt (Egyptian Arabic: شوام مصر, romanized: Shawām Maṣr), also known as the Syro-Lebanese in Egypt (French: Syro-Libanais d'Égypte), are an ethnic minority group in Egypt. They are Egyptians who have ancestry originating from the Levant, mostly what is now Syria and Lebanon, but also including Palestine and Jordan.
Egyptian Americans (Arabic: الأمريكيون المصريون, romanized: al-Amirīkīyūn al-Miṣrīyūn) are Americans of partial or full Egyptian ancestry. The 2016 US Census estimated the number of people with Egyptian ancestry at 256,000, [8] most of whom are from Egypt's Christian Orthodox Coptic minority. [7]
The Egyptian Greeks, also known as Egyptiotes (Greek: Αιγυπτιώτες, romanized: Eyiptiótes) or simply Greeks in Egypt (Greek: Έλληνες της Αιγύπτου, romanized: Éllines tis Eyíptou), are the ethnic Greek community from Egypt that has existed from the Hellenistic period until the aftermath of the Egyptian coup d'état of 1952, when most were forced to leave.
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include a people of a common language , culture , common sets of ancestry , traditions , society , religion , history, or social treatment.
Ethnolinguistic distribution in Central and Southwest Asia of the Altaic, Caucasian, Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) and Indo-European families.. Ethnic groups in the Middle East are ethnolinguistic groupings in the "transcontinental" region that is commonly a geopolitical term designating the intercontinental region comprising West Asia (including Cyprus) without the South Caucasus, [1] and also ...
An Egyptian man with Anubis Faiyum mummy portrait of an Egyptian man with sword belt, Altes Museum. Egypt has always been one of the most populous lands of the ancient Mediterranean world, with a population of at least 3 million Egyptians in the first century BC according to the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus. [32]