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Egypt's only territory in West Asia is the Sinai Peninsula, which serves as a land bridge connecting Africa and Asia, positioned between the Mediterranean Sea to its north and the Red Sea to its south.[1] The peninsula covers roughly 60,000 km² and houses about 600,000 people, with its territory split administratively into the North Sinai and South Sinai governorates.[1][2]

Key facts and history

At the end of Darius I's reign, Sinai was part of the Persian province of Abar-Nahra.[3] In 1956, Egypt nationalised the Suez Canal, and thereafter Israeli ships were prohibited from using it.[4][5] Egypt ordered the UNEF out of Sinai on 16 May 1967 and reoccupied it militarily.[6] Since the early 2000s, Sinai has been the site of several terror attacks against tourists, motivated by resentment of poverty faced by many Bedouin.[7]

During classical antiquity, this area went by the name Arabia Petraea.[8]

What the cited sources add

The same source describes hostages screaming of beatings, burnings, and women raped repeatedly every hour.[9] Woodfin's 2012 book notes that cactus hedges formed an important part of defensible positions during the Sinai and Palestine campaign of World War I.[10][11] Greenwood's 1997 work "The Sinai: A Physical Geography" describes the peninsula's physical geography.[12][13]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Sinai Peninsula" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Greenwood, "The Sinai: A Physical Geography", www.capmas.gov.eg, 1997, p. 5 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Sinai Peninsula" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Ned Greenwood, "The Sinai: A Physical Geography", University of Texas Press, 1 January 2010, p. 4– (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Sinai Peninsula" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "History of Iran: Achaemenid Persian Syria 538–331 BCE; Two Centuries of Persian Rule", www.iranchamber.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Sinai Peninsula" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal", History (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Sinai Peninsula" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "1956: Egypt Seizes Suez Canal", BBC, 26 July 1956 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Sinai Peninsula" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Samir A. Mutawi, "Jordan in the 1967 War", Cambridge University Press, 18 July 2002, p. 93 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Sinai Peninsula" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Serene Assir, "Shock in Sharm", Al-Ahram Weekly, 23 July 2005 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Sinai Peninsula" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: De Vaux, "The Early History of Israel", Darton, Longman & Todd, 1978, p. 429 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. "Close the Torture Houses in North Sinai and Egypt", [AI] Asmarino Independent, 13 March 2014. facts only, no text reused. asmarino.com
  10. Wikipedia, "Sinai Peninsula" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Woodfin, "Camp and Combat on the Sinai and Palestine Front : The experience of the British Empire Soldier, 1916 18", Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, p. xix+220 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  11. Open Library record, ISBN 9780230303768 ("Camp and combat on the Sinai and Palestine front"). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org
  12. Greenwood, "The Sinai: A Physical Geography", www.capmas.gov.eg, 1997, p. 5. facts only, no text reused. archive.org
  13. Open Library record, ISBN 9780292727991 ("The Sinai"). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Sinai Peninsula (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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