Proper Name guide
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A village on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt which contains several ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman structures.
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name
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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History
From Egyptian Arabic أَبُو قِير (ʔabū qīr), from the Arabic name of the Egyptian Copt Cyrus, قِير (qīr).
Across languages
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