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Egyp (Roman province)

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(Reguidit frae Roman Egyp)
Province o Aegyptus
Provincia Aegypti
ἐπαρχία Αἰγύπτου
Province o the Roman Empire
30 BC–641

Province of Aegyptus in 117 AD.
CaipitalAlexandria
Historical eraAntiquity
• Conquest o Ptolemaic Egyp
30 BC
• Formation o the Diocese
390
641
Precedit bi
Succeedit bi
Ptolemaic Kinrick
Egyp in the Middle Ages
The day pairt o Egypt

The Roman province o Egyp (Laitin: Aegyptus, pronoonced [ajˈɡʏptʊs]; Greek: Αἴγυπτος Aigyptos [ɛ́ːgyptos]) wis established in 30 BC efter Octavian (the futur emperor Augustus) defeatit his rival Mark Antony, deponed Antony's lover Queen Cleopatra VII an annexed the Ptolemaic Kinrick o Egyp tae the Roman Empire.