In lower Egypt there is the island of Yeb or Elephantine (opposite Syene) which was an important administrative and military center.
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About 5, 200 years ago, the first pharaoh managed to unify Upper and Lower Egypt into a single state with Memphis as its capital.
The House of Representatives, the lower house in Egypt's bicameral system, will hold its first session July 6, the decree said.
The House of Representatives, the lower house in Egypt's bicameral system, will hold its first session July 2 instead of July 6, the agency said.
When Egypt's Lower House convened on Jan. 23, Islamists held 360 out of its 498 seats, or 72 percent.
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The Brotherhood's political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party, won more than 40% of the seats in Egypt's lower house of Parliament in recent elections.
Other nations in revolt had even lower rates of joblessness in 2010: Egypt (9.7%), Algeria (9.9%), and Jordan (13.4%).
The elections will be the first since Egypt's highest court dissolved the lower house of parliament in June, and it will be the first full Parliament in Morsy's presidency.
These will be the first elections since Egypt's highest court dissolved the lower house of parliament in June, and it will be the first full parliament in Morsy's presidency.
Egypt's top court ruled last summer that the 2012 vote for the lower house of parliament which Islamists swept was unconstitutional and declared one third of the winners illegitimate, dissolving the body.
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The row worsened last week when parliament pressed forward with a bill to lower the retirement age for judges from 70 to 60, affecting about 25% of Egypt's 13, 000 judges and prosecutors.
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