Order of the Nile
The Nile Medal, Arabic قلادة النيل العظمى, DMG qilādat to al - ʿ Uzma Nile, Nile 's biggest band ', is the highest order of merit in Egypt and is awarded for outstanding services to the nation.
History
It was introduced in 1915 by Sultan Hussein Kamil. Its name refers to the Nile, which is of crucial economic importance for Egypt. The Order is an allegory of the source of the Nile and is surrounded by eight rubies and two turquoises. The ribbon is azure blue with two yellow vertical lines on each side.
After the military coup of 1952, the order was maintained, it only found changes in the statutes instead.
Order of classes
The order consists of five classes:
- Grand Cross
- Grand Officer
- Commander
- Officer
- Knight
Famous bearer of the Order
- Sadruddin Aga Khan
- Akihito
- Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa
- Amha Selassie I.
- Mohammed el- Baradei
- Belard José da Fonseca
- William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood
- Birendra
- Donald Charles Cameron ( politician)
- Harry Chauvel
- Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode
- Nikita Khrushchev
- António Ramalho Eanes
- Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain
- Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
- Amedeo Guillet
- Haile Selassie
- Hussein I, King of Jordan
- Idris I, King of Libya
- Émile Lahoud
- Makarios III. (Cyprus)
- Nelson Mandela
- Margrethe II (Denmark)
- Carlos Menem
- Mohammed V (Morocco )
- Mohammed VI. (Morocco )
- Alexander Möller
- Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
- Hosni Mubarak
- Ali Muhammad Naguib
- Nursultan Nazarbayev
- Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Andrian Grigoryevich Nikolayev
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- Qaboos bin Said
- Heinrich Rau
- Jabir al -Ahmad al - Jabir al- Sabah
- Anwar Sadat
- William E. Simon
- Mário Soares
- Suharto
- Mohammed Hussein Tantawi
- Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova
- Walter Ulbricht
- Hoyt S. Vandenberg
- George Vassiliou
- Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
- Reginald Wingate
- Ahmed Zewail