United Arab Republic

State · 1958–1972 CE · at its largest around 1960 CE

A political union of Egypt and Syria under Gamal Abdel Nasser, formed as a step toward pan-Arab unity. Syria seceded in 1961, but Egypt kept the name until 1971.

On its lands while it lasted

• David Ben-Gurion (1886 CE – 1973 CE): Zionist leader who proclaimed the State of Israel in 1948 and served as its first prime minister.
• Naguib Mahfouz (1911 CE – 2006 CE): Egyptian novelist known for the Cairo Trilogy, the first Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1988.
• Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918 CE – 1970 CE): Egypt's leader from 1954 until his death, a champion of Arab nationalism who nationalized the Suez Canal and built the Aswan High Dam.
• Six-Day War (1967 CE): In June 1967 Israel defeated Egypt, Jordan and Syria and took the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, West Bank, East Jerusalem and Golan Heights.
• Aswan High Dam (1970 CE): Built with Soviet help between 1960 and 1970, the dam controls the Nile's annual flood and created Lake Nasser, one of the world's largest reservoirs.

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