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Nile
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Nile  (nl)
The longest river in the world, flowing about 6,677 km (4,150 mi) through eastern Africa from its most remote sources in Burundi to a delta on the Mediterranean Sea in northeast Egypt. The main headstreams, the Blue Nile and the White Nile, join at Khartoum in Sudan to form the Nile proper. The river has been used for irrigation in Egypt since at least 4000 b.c., a function now regulated largely by the Aswan High Dam.

Nile [naɪl]
n
(Placename) a river in Africa, rising in S central Burundi in its remotest headstream, the Luvironza: flows into Lake Victoria and leaves the lake as the Victoria Nile, flowing to Lake Albert, which is drained by the Albert Nile, becoming the White Nile on the border between Uganda and the Sudan; joined by its chief tributary, the Blue Nile (which rises near Lake Tana, Ethiopia) at Khartoum, and flows north to its delta on the Mediterranean; the longest river in the world. Length: (from the source of the Luvironza to the Mediterranean) 6741 km (4187 miles)
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Noun1.Nile - the world's longest river (4150 miles)Nile - the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization
Arab Republic of Egypt, Egypt, United Arab Republic - a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC
Republic of the Sudan, Soudan, Sudan - a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956
Republic of Uganda, Uganda - a landlocked republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962
Translations
Nile [naɪl] NNilo m
Nile [ˈnaɪl] n
the Nile → le Nil
Nile
nNil m
Nile [naɪl] n the Nileil Nilo


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Even more sad still, today the Egyptian press and media chose to remark this day by yet adding more salt to the injury by not only despising the way the Sudanese hosted the bloody tournament between Egypt and Algeria, but they went even as to abuse everything that is Sudanese thus disregarding all the songs being sung for the unity of the Nile valley.
He discusses the influx of foreigners into the Nile Valley and Egypt's relations with neighboring territories during the Pharaonic and Ptolemaic periods, often using evidence from the latter to help illuminate shadows in the former.
A visit to Saqqara is a must, not too far from the Sphinx; you get to see the wonderful Nile valley, the plateau and a great old Egyptian monument.
 
 
 
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