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Nile vs Aboukir - What's the difference?

nile | aboukir |

As proper nouns the difference between nile and aboukir

is that nile is a large river in Africa flowing through Khartoum and Cairo into the Mediterranean Sea, usually considered to be the longest river in the world while Aboukir is a village on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt which contains several ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman structures.

nile

English

(wikipedia Nile)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A large river in Africa flowing through Khartoum and Cairo into the Mediterranean Sea, usually considered to be the longest river in the world.
  • * 1844 , Pierre Henri Larcher, William Desborough Cooley, Larcher's notes on Herodotus
    • The seven mouths of the Nile then, from east to west, are the Pelusian, the Mendesian, the Bucolic, the Sebennytic, the Saïtic, the Bolbitine, and the Canopic. Such is the account of Heredotus.

    Derived terms

    * Blue Nile * denial is not a river in Egypt * Nile bird * Nile goose * White Nile

    See also

    * Branches of the Nile: ** Bolbitine (Bolbitic) ** Bucolic (Phatnitic, Phatnic, Phatmetic, Athribitic) ** Canopic (Heracleotic, Naucratitic) ** Mendesian (Tanitic, Busiritic) ** Pelusian (Bubastic) ** ** Sebennytic (Thermutiac)

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    aboukir

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Abukir, Abu Qir

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A village on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt which contains several ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman structures.
  • A bay outside this village, at the mouth of the Nile, where on 1 August 1798 a British fleet led by (Horatio Nelson) defeated the French in the (Battle of the Nile).

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