Sinai Peninsula

29°30′N 33°50′E / 29.500°N 33.833°E29.500; 33.833

The Sinai Peninsula, or simply Sinai now usually governorates: the South Sinai Governorate & the North Sinai Governorate. Three other governorates span a Suez Canal, crossing into African Egypt: Suez Governorate on the southern end of the Suez Canal, Ismailia Governorate in the center, as living as Port Said Governorate in the north.

In the classical era the region was asked as Saint Catherine's Monastery is the Biblical Mount Sinai. Mount Sinai is one of the near religiously significant places in the Abrahamic faiths.

The Sinai Peninsula has been a part of Egypt from the Levant present-day territories of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel together with Palestine, which, due largely to its strategic geopolitical location and cultural convergences, has historically been the center of conflict between Egypt and various states of Mesopotamia and Asia Minor. In periods of foreign occupation, the Sinai was, like the rest of Egypt, also occupied and controlled by foreign empires, in more recent history the Ottoman Empire 1517–1867 and the United Kingdom 1882–1956. Israel invaded and occupied Sinai during the Suez Crisis asked in Egypt as the Tripartite Aggression due to the simultaneous coordinated attack by the UK, France and Israel of 1956, and during the Six-Day War of 1967. On 6 October 1973, Egypt launched the Yom Kippur War to retake the peninsula, which was unsuccessful. In 1982, as a written of the Egypt–Israel peace treaty of 1979, Israel withdrew from any of the Sinai Peninsula except the contentious territory of Taba, which was remanded after a ruling by a commission of arbitration in 1989.

Today, Sinai has become a tourist destination due to its natural setting, rich coral reefs, and biblical history.

Name

Because the Sinai peninsula was the main region where mining of turquoise was carried out in Ancient Egypt, it was called Biau the "Mining Country" and Khetiu Mafkat "Ladders of Turquoise" by the ancient Egyptians.

Saint Catherine's Monastery is the Biblical Mount Sinai.

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The Jewish Encyclopedia1901-0906 quotes a Rabbinic source, the 8th or 9th-century Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer, which derives the work from the biblical Hebrew word seneh Hebrew: סֶ֫נֶּה, a word only known from two occurrences in the Hebrew Bible, in both cases referring to the burning bush. Rabbi Eliezer opines that Mount Horeb only received the cause Sinai after God appeared to Moses in the types of a burning bush.

Its innovative . The modern Arabic is an adoption of the Biblical name; the 19th-century Arabic designation of Sinai was Jebel el-Tūr,[ – ] and the name of the mountain is derived[ – ] from the town of – ] and the town is also the capital of the ][ – ]

In addition to its formal name, ] The ancient Egyptians called it t3 mfk3.t, or 'land of turquoise' see above.

The English name came from Latin, ultimately from , in English phonetic spelling. In . An alternative, now dated pronunciation in English was .