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  2. History of Egypt under the British - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the Wafd Party was invited and promised full independence in the years ahead. British occupation ended nominally with the UK's 1922 declaration of Egyptian independence, but British military domination of Egypt lasted until 1936. [1] During British occupation and later control, Egypt developed into a regional commercial and trading ...

  3. List of countries that have gained independence from the ...

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    Egypt: 28 February: 1922: Control over the Suez Canal Zone was maintained until 1956. Eswatini: 6 September: 1968: Initially called Swaziland, which was also its pre-independence name. Renamed eSwatini by King Mswati III in April 2018. Fiji: 10 October: 1970: Fiji has been a Commonwealth republic since 1997. The Gambia: Gambia 18 February: 1965

  4. Egypt–United Kingdom relations - Wikipedia

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    The United States, Great Britain, and Egypt, 1945-1956: Strategy and Diplomacy in the Early Cold War (1991) online; Louis, William Roger. The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945-1951: Arab Nationalism, the United States, and Postwar Imperialism (1984) Marlowe, John. A History of Modern Egypt and Anglo-Egyptian Relations, 1800-1953 (1954) online

  5. List of empires - Wikipedia

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    Empire Start year End year Duration (years) ... Kingdom of England: 927 1707 780 Old Kingdom of Egypt: 2686 BC: 2181 BC: 508 [3] Middle Kingdom of Egypt: 2055 BC ...

  6. List of largest empires - Wikipedia

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    Empire size in this list is defined as the dry land area it controlled at the time, which may differ considerably from the area it claimed. For example: in the year 1800, European powers collectively claimed approximately 20% of the Earth's land surface that they did not effectively control. [ 8 ]

  7. Anglo-Egyptian War - Wikipedia

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    The reasons why the British government sent a fleet of ships to the coast of Alexandria is a point of historical debate. In their 1961 essay Africa and the Victorians, Ronald Robinson and John Gallagher argue that the British invasion was ordered to quell the perceived anarchy of the ‘Urabi Revolt, as well as to protect British control over the Suez Canal in order to maintain its shipping ...

  8. Sultanate of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The Sultanate of Egypt (Arabic: السلطنة المصرية, romanized: Salṭanat al-Miṣrīyya) was a British protectorate in Egypt which existed from 1914, after the outbreak of World War I, to 1922, when it ceased to exist as a result of the Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence.

  9. Kingdom of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of Egypt (Arabic: المملكة المصرية, romanized: Al-Mamlaka Al-Miṣreyya, lit. 'The Egyptian Kingdom') was the legal form of the Egyptian state during the latter period of the Muhammad Ali dynasty's reign, from the United Kingdom's recognition of Egyptian independence in 1922 until the abolition of the monarchy of Egypt and Sudan in 1953 following the Egyptian ...