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Egyptians are the inhabitants and citizens of Egypt sharing a common culture and a dialect of Arabic.
Egyptian identity is closely tied to geography. The population of Egypt is concentrated in the lower Nile valley, the small strip of cultivable land stretching from the First Cataract to the Mediterranean and enclosed by desert both to the east and to the west. This unique geography has been the basis of the development of Egyptian society since antiquity. If regarded as a single ethnic group, the Egyptian people constitute one of the world's largest.
The daily language of the Egyptians is the local variety of Arabic, known as Egyptian Arabic or Masri, Also a sizable minority of Egyptian speak Sa'idi Arabic in Upper Egypt. Egyptians are predominantly adherents of Sunni Islam with a Shia minority and a significant proportion who follow native Sufi orders. A sizable minority of Egyptians belong to the Coptic Orthodox Church, whose liturgical language, Coptic, is the last stage of the indigenous Egyptian language.
⁕Egyptians, from Greek Αἰγύπτιοι, Aiguptioi, from Αἴγυπτος, Aiguptos "Egypt". The Greek name is derived from Late Egyptian Hikuptah "Memphis", a corruption of the earlier Egyptian name Hat-ka-Ptah, meaning "home of the ka of Ptah", the name of a temple to the god Ptah at Memphis. Strabo provided a folk etymology according to which Αἴγυπτος had evolved as a compound from Aἰγαίου ὑπτίως Aegaeou huptiōs, meaning "below the Aegean". In English, the noun "Egyptians" appears in the 14th century, in Wycliff's Bible, as Egipcions.
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![Morsi praises Egypt's 1952 revolution, chides its failure to bring about democracy [Al Jazeera, Qatar]](/images/image_cache/base-7571000/7571871/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=3742e4de899ec1e4bce93dfdc5d0ac4c)
![Egyptian journalist released after two-week detention in Sudan [Nile TV, Egypt]](/images/image_cache/base-7270000/7270729/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=7f1f3db2e75bbdab1780978a3c2cc3ca)
![Morsi releases his first 100-day reform plan [Nile TV, Egypt]](/images/image_cache/base-6657000/6657242/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=5a1487215be390e0605c9cd12b2daf2a)
![Egypt's Morsi takes presidential oath in Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square [New TV, Lebanon]](/images/image_cache/base-6513000/6513294/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=18ee2d17f764466fbd639bcde2c7df9c "Supporters of Egypt's Islamist President-elect Mohamed Mursi celebrate after his speech in Cairo's Tahrir Square, June 29, 2012: REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh")
![Celebrations in Egypt as President-Elect Morsi vows to continue revolution [Al-Alam, Iran]](/images/image_cache/base-6242000/6242562/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=9d2d7e259f08a40c940fdc0c4ac0738f)
![Delayed poll results keep Egyptians on edge and on the streets [Al-Alam, Iran]](/images/image_cache/base-6053000/6053031/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=649053d141513e22ab9eaebccb51c9ef)
![Muslim Brotherhood's Morsy claims win in Egyptian presidential election [BBC Arabic, UK]](/images/image_cache/base-5952000/5952653/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=91a1fe17966daecfbd838d81000ff49a "Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood's presidential candidate Mohamed Morsy hold posters of him as they celebrate at Tahrir square in Cairo June 18, 2012: REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah")
![Egypt's high court dissolves parliament two days before presidential elections [New TV, Lebanon]](/images/image_cache/base-5714000/5714682/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=37d30b039301b768197a80b6eefe2dfe "A protester holds a shoe and shouts slogans during a protest outside the Supreme Constitutional Court, where a decision is expected on the validity of the law passed by the Islamist-led parliament that sought to bar Ahmed Shafik, Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, from the vote pitting him against the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsy, in Cairo June 14, 2012: REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh")
![Protests continue in Cairo as Mubarak verdicts divide Egyptians [Dubai TV, UAE]](/images/image_cache/base-5281000/5281744/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=09cb01c5203f5b9eee82815b2363b142)
