Its outlet, at the northernmost tip of the lake, is the Albert Nile ( which becomes known as the Mountain Nile when it enters South Sudan ).

The region takes its name from the Kagera River, which flows from Rwanda through northern Tanzania before it enters Lake Victoria, to emerge as the Nile, the longest river in the world.

It enters the territory of the Scythian Husbandmen after running for some time through a desert region … It is the only river besides the Nile the sources of which are unknown …

In Ancient Egypt, Aquarius was associated with the annual flood of the Nile ; the banks were said to flood when Aquarius put his jar into the river, beginning spring.

Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt.

* 1969 – Israeli commando force penetrates deep into Egyptian territory to stage a mortar attack on regional Egyptian Army headquarters in the Nile Valley of Upper Egypt.

The first community established by him was at Tabennae, an island of the Nile in Upper Egypt.

He is buried in at the Mausoleum of Aga Khan, on the Nile in Aswan, Egypt.

The Ababda or Ababde – the Gebadei of Pliny, and possibly the Troglodytes of other classical writers – are nomads living in the area between the Nile and the Red Sea, in the vicinity of Aswan in Egypt.

The Ababda extend from the Nile at Aswan to the Red Sea, and reach northward to the Qena-Quseir road, thus occupying the southern border of Egypt east of the Nile.

In Egypt in 1887, W. M. F. Petrie found painted sherds of Cretan style at Kahun in the Fayum, and farther up the Nile, at Tell el-Amarna, chanced on bits of no fewer than 800 Aegean vases in 1889.

It contains a vivid description of a famine caused, during the author's residence in Egypt, by the Nile failing to overflow its banks.

He asked Alexander to send him two new British divisions ( 51st Highland and 44th ) that were then arriving in Egypt and were scheduled to be deployed in defence of the Nile Delta.

The Battle of the Nile ( also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay, in French as the Bataille d ' Aboukir or in Egyptian Arabic as معركة أبي قير البحرية ) was a major naval battle fought between British and French fleets at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt from 1 – 3 August 1798.

The Ottomans, with whom Bonaparte had hoped to conduct an alliance once his control of Egypt was complete, were encouraged by the Battle of the Nile to go to war with France.

In Egypt, canals date back at least to the time of Pepi I Meryre ( reigned 2332 – 2283 BC ), who ordered a canal built to bypass the cataract on the Nile near Aswan.

The area around present-day Cairo, especially Memphis, had long been a focal point of Ancient Egypt due to its strategic location just upstream from the Nile Delta.

* Canopus, Egypt, an ancient Egyptian city in the Nile Delta

Control of the river Nile was considered vitally important for any expedition into Egypt and the Sudan.

Also included are the nine governorates of Lower Egypt in the Nile Delta region, the eight governorates of Upper Egypt along the Nile River south from Cairo to Aswan, and the five frontier governorates covering Sinai and the deserts that lie west and east of the Nile.

Despite covering only about 5. 5 % of the total area of Egypt, the Nile Valley and Nile Delta are the most important regions, being the country's only cultivable regions and supporting about 99 % of the population.

Only a few weeks later the British fleet under Admiral Horatio Nelson unexpectedly destroyed the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile ( 1 – 3 August 1798 ).

Darius commemorated his achievement with a number of granite stelae that he set up on the Nile bank, including one near Kabret, and a further one a few miles north of Suez.

A few centuries ago it was found in North Africa along the Nile valley up to Khartum and north of the Sahara.

Although a number of European explorers contemplated tracing the course of the Blue Nile from its confluence with the White Nile to Lake Tana, its gorge, which begins a few miles inside the Ethiopian border, has discouraged all attempts since Frédéric Cailliaud's attempt in 1821.

It was used for many large scale constructions all over the world in the next few years, such as the High Level Bridge at Newcastle upon Tyne and the Nile barrage at Aswan, Egypt.

In a broadcast Churchill said, " General Wilson, who commands the Army of the Nile, was reputed to be one of our finest tacticians, and few will now deny him that quality.

In most of Upper Egypt, the desert is close to the Nile River, with a seasonal flood plain only a few kilometers wide between river and desert.

Baker met with great difficulties and managed little beyond establishing a few posts along the Nile.

Gondokoro was an important center since it was located within a few miles from the cutoff point of navigability of the Nile from Khartoum.

Its importance lay in the fact that it was within a few miles of the limit of navigability of the Nile from Khartoum upstream.

Because of its importance to the Crusaders, the Mamluk Sultan Baibars destroyed the city and rebuilt it with stronger fortifications a few kilometres from the river in the early 1260s, making the mouth of the Nile at Damietta impassable for ships.

Alligators are often less aggressive towards humans than large crocodile species, a few of which ( mainly the Nile and Saltwater Crocodiles ) may prey on humans with some regularity.

According to the Midrash, a few people made themselves deities: Pharaoh Kings of Egypt ( see Ezekiel 29: 3: " The Nile is mine and I have made myself ", understood by the Midrash as a claim that he created himself ); Hiram King of Tyre ( see Ezekiel 28: 2 ); Haman the Aggagite ( see Esther 3: 2 ).

The Dutch effectively then doubled up the galleons ( in a move that almost two centuries later was copied by Admiral Nelson during the Battle of the Nile of 1798 ) and a few of the galleons caught fire.

American crows typically die within one week of acquiring the disease and very few survive exposure ; a local increase in crow mortality is an indicator of possible West Nile Virus activity.

This sub-section contains both local and exotic animals, from rock pythons to Burmese pythons, Nile crocodiles, black mambas, tarantulas, scorpions, and gila monsters to name a few.

A few of the names at the start of the itinerary, including Ra ' amses, Pithom and Succoth, are reasonably well identified with archaeological sites on the eastern edge of the Nile delta, as is Kadesh-Barnea, where the Israelites spend 38 years after turning back from Canaan, but other than that very little is certain.

" There are few of these lizards less suited to life in captivity than the Nile monitor.

Very few of the people who buy brightly-coloured baby Nile Monitors can be aware that, within a couple of years, their purchase will have turned into an enormous, ferocious carnivore, quite capable of breaking the family cat's neck with a single snap and swallowing it whole.

During the reign of Trajan, the city's fortunes declined with the development of a new canal between the Nile and the Red Sea terminating at Clysma a few km to the west of Arsinoe.

Nile Crocodiles, wattled cranes, and a few other animals are seen before the Forest Aviary.

On the edge of town is the Crocodile Ranch, one of the few captive breeding programs for the Nile Crocodile that has been registered with CITES.

Nile and his band were soon on the road with The Who, only a few months after Willie's first experience playing with a band.