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Saint Catherine's Monastery
Saint Catherine's Monastery (Arabic: دير القدّيسة كاترين Dayr al-Qiddīsa Katrīn; Greek: Μονὴ τῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Catherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, is a Christian monastery located in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.Located at the foot of Mount Sinai, it was built between ...
Taba
In 1906, Taba became the center of a territorial dispute between the British and the Ottoman Empire, known as the "Taba Crisis."Although the Sinai Peninsula was nominally Ottoman, it had been largely administered by Egypt, except for the Aqaba region, which had been officially under Ottoman administration since 1892. [2] [3] When the Ottomans began plans to extend the Hejaz railway to the Gulf ...