Nile Valley

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The Nile Valley is the fertile river corridor in northeastern Africa that supported the rise and flourishing of ancient Egyptian civilization.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf geographical region
river valley
borderedBy Eastern Desert of Egypt
surface form: Eastern Desert

Sahara Desert
Western Desert
climate arid
semi-arid
country Burundi
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Egypt
Ethiopia
Kenya
Rwanda
South Sudan
Sudan
Tanzania
Uganda
dependsOn Nile River flow
economicActivity agriculture
fishing
river transport
tourism
hasMajorArchaeologicalSite Abu Simbel temples
Giza Pyramids
surface form: Giza pyramid complex

Karnak Temple Complex
Kingdom of Meroë
surface form: Meroë

Philae
Valley of the Kings
hasMajorCity Aswan
Cairo
Khartoum
Luxor
hasPart Nile Valley and Nile Delta
surface form: Lower Nile Valley

Nile Delta
Nile Valley self-linksurface differs
surface form: Nile floodplain

Upper Nile Valley
hasUNESCOWorldHeritageSite Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae
historicalPeriodOfFlourishing Middle Kingdom of Egypt
New Kingdom of Egypt
Old Kingdom of Egypt
Pharaonic Egypt
surface form: Pharaonic period

Predynastic Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom
Ptolemaic–Roman Egypt
surface form: Roman Egypt
knownFor annual Nile floods
fertile alluvial soils
intensive irrigation agriculture
languageCurrentlySpoken Arabic
languageHistoricallySpoken Ancient Egyptian
Coptic
locatedIn Northeast Africa
surface form: Northeastern Africa
majorRiver Blue Nile
White Nile
partOf Nile Valley self-linksurface differs
surface form: Nile Basin
primaryCrops barley
dates
flax
papyrus
vegetables
wheat
religionCurrentlyPracticed Christianity
Islam
religionHistoricallyPracticed Ancient Egyptian religion
supportedCivilization Pharaonic Egypt
surface form: Ancient Egypt

Kingdom of Kush
Nubia
surface form: Nubian kingdoms
traversedBy Nile
surface form: Nile River

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Sedfa belongsToCulturalRegion Nile Valley
Ghanayem region Nile Valley
this entity surface form: Nile Valley region of Egypt
Sultanate of Egypt location Nile Valley
Sahel Selim partOf Nile Valley
Eastern Egypt locatedEastOf Nile Valley
Henri Gauthier areaOfActivity Nile Valley
Ramesses V governedRegion Nile Valley
El-Kurru locatedIn Nile Valley