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Gizeh

noun
1.
An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo; site of three Great Pyramids and the Sphinx.  Synonyms: El Giza, Giza.





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"Gizeh" Quotes from Famous Books



... he saw what he had not seen before—the amazing size of the construction project. This was no piffling little Gizeh pyramid, no simple tomb for a king. Its base was measured in kilometers instead of yards, and its top was going to be proportionally high, apparently. It hardly seemed that there could be enough stone in the whole world to finish the job. ...
— The Sky Is Falling • Lester del Rey
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... position of New and of Old Cairo is well known, and has been often described. Two writers, who were intimately acquainted with ancient and modern Egypt, have fixed, after a learned inquiry, the city of Memphis at Gizeh, directly opposite the Old Cairo, (Sicard, Nouveaux Memoires des Missions du Levant, tom. vi. p. 5, 6. Shaw's Observations and Travels, p. 296-304.) Yet we may not disregard the authority or the arguments of ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 5 • Edward Gibbon
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Words linked to "Gizeh" :   Arab Republic of Egypt, metropolis, city, United Arab Republic, urban center, Egypt


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