Former state · 1889 – 1958
Republic of Egypt
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The Republic of Egypt was a state created in 1953 under the rule of Mohammed Naguib following the Egyptian revolution of 1952 in which the Kingdom of Egypt's Muhammad Ali dynasty came to an end. It was superseded in 1958 with the creation of the United Arab Republic.
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Key people
Naguib Mahfouz1911 – 2006Egyptian writer (1911–2006)Source: Wikidata (citizenship)
Hosni Mubarak1928 – 2020President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011Source: Wikidata (citizenship)
Gamal Abdel Nasser1918 – 1970President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970Source: Wikidata (citizenship)
Anwar Sadat1918 – 1981President of Egypt from 1970 to 1981Source: Wikidata (citizenship)
Mohamed Morsi1951 – 2019President of Egypt from 2012 to 2013Source: Wikidata (citizenship)
Umm Kulthum1898 – 1975Egyptian singer and actress (1886–1975)Source: Wikidata (citizenship)
Ayman al-Zawahiri1951 – 2022Al-Qaeda terrorist leader (1951–2022), Muslim jurist and theologian (Sunni), surgeonSource: Wikidata (citizenship).jpg/330px-Nawal_El_Saadawi%2C_April_2012_(cropped).jpg)
Nawal El Saadawi1931 – 2021Egyptian feminist writer (1931–2021)Source: Wikidata (citizenship)
Farouk I of Egypt1920 – 1965King of Egypt 1936 to 1952Source: Wikidata (citizenship)
Mohamed Naguib1901 – 19841st President of the Republic of Egypt (1901–1984)Source: Wikidata (citizenship)
Yusuf al-Qaradawi1926 – 2022Egyptian Islamic theologian based in Doha, Qatar (1926-2022)Source: Wikidata (citizenship)
Mohamed Hussein Tantawi1935 – 2021Egyptian Field marshal and former statesman (1935–2021)Source: Wikidata (citizenship).jpg/330px-Pope_Shenouda_III_of_Alexandria_by_Chuck_Kennedy_(Official_White_House_Photostream).jpg)
Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria1923 – 2012117th pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church (1923–2012)Source: Wikidata (citizenship)
Taha Hussein1889 – 1973Egyptian writer and literary critic (1889–1973)Source: Wikidata (citizenship)
Everything that happened
- 1952Egyptian revolution of 1952Kingdom of EgyptOn 23 July 1952, a coup began in Egypt with the toppling of King Farouk in a coup d'état by the Free Officers Movement, a group of army officers led by Mohamed Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser. It ushered in a wave of revolutionary politics in the Arab world, contributing to the escalation of decolonization and the development of Third World solidarity during the Cold War.Source: Wikidata (country)