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Sultanate of Egypt
Sultanate of Egypt | |||||||||
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| 1914–1922 | |||||||||
| Anthem: Salam Affandina | |||||||||
 Green: Sultanate of Egypt Light green: Anglo-Egyptian Sudan condominium Lightest green: Ceded from Anglo-Egyptian Sudan to Italian Libya in 1919 | |||||||||
| Status | Protectorate of the United Kingdom | ||||||||
| Capital | Cairo | ||||||||
| Official languages | Arabic | ||||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam Coptic Orthodox Church Judaism | ||||||||
| Government | Constitutional monarchy | ||||||||
| Sultan | |||||||||
• 1914–1917 | Hussein Kamel | ||||||||
• 1917–1922 | Fuad I | ||||||||
| British High Commissioner | |||||||||
• 1914–1916 | Henry McMahon | ||||||||
• 1916–1919 | Reginald Wingate | ||||||||
• 1919–1925 | Edmund Allenby | ||||||||
| Prime Minister | |||||||||
• 1914–1919 (first) | Hussein Rushdi | ||||||||
• 1921 (last) | Adli Yakan | ||||||||
| Historical era | World War I • Interwar period | ||||||||
• Established | 19 December 1914 | ||||||||
| 1919–1922 | |||||||||
| 28 February 1922 | |||||||||
• Coronation of Fuad I | 15 March 1922 | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1917[1] | 12,751,000 | ||||||||
| Currency | Egyptian pound | ||||||||
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The Sultanate of Egypt (Arabic: السلطنة المصرية, romanized: Salṭanat al-Miṣrīyya) was a British protectorate in Egypt which existed from 1914, after the outbreak of World War I, to 1922, when it ceased to exist as a result of the Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence.
- ^ Bonné, Alfred (2003) [First published 1945]. The Economic Development of the Middle East: An Outline of Planned Reconstruction after the War. The International Library of Sociology. London: Routledge. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-415-17525-8. OCLC 39915162. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
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