by admin | Jun 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Nile Basin Expeditions Several failed expeditions were made by world powers to discover the sources of the Blue and White Niles. To mention just a few, explorations of the Blue Nile were launched by Cyrus (the Persian king who reigned from 550-530 CE), Cyrus’s son...
by admin | Jun 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
The seventy-five years between 1805 to 1880 were dominated by Egypt’s Mohammed Ali and his descendants expanding their territories far beyond Egypt. Some historians divide this period into two phases: the rule of Mohammed Ali (1805 – 1848), where the interest...
by admin | Jun 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
Khedive Ismail Pasha, who ruled Egypt from 1863 to 1879, attempted to invade Ethiopia on several occasions. His military expeditions did not produce the results that he had expected or anticipated. The battles of Gundet and Gura were a showdown between an Egyptian...
by admin | Jun 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
The next step in securing the full course of the Nile was to control the source of the Blue Nile, which contributes the largest volume of water to the Nile. Britain devised another strategy for this as it did not want to directly interfere with the sovereign country...
by admin | Jun 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Nile River was also the subject of a creative attempt to secure an existence. In 1903, Theodor Herzl, the Hungarian Jewish journalist and founder of political Zionism, the movement to establish a Jewish homeland, developed a proposal to build a Jewish settlement....
by admin | Jul 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
On July 23, 1952, a group of army officers led by Mohammed Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew King Farouk in a coup that abolished the constitutional monarchy and established a republic. Nassar came to power during the height of the Cold War and his nonaligned...
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