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Travelogue: By Country | By Date | Egypt | April 2001 |
Curtain in the "Hanging Church" discolored from kissing. The Coptic Church is the principal Christian church in Egypt. (The word "coptic" is the arabic version of Aigyptios which is the Greek word used by the people of Egypt to describe themselves and their language before the Arab conquest in the 7th century.) |
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