Order of the Nile

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Type Order		Next (higher) Order of Ismail

Awarded for Exceptionally valuable public service to Egypt Established 1915 Reconstituted under the Republic 18 June 1953 Next (lower) Order of the Republic (Egypt)

The Order of the Nile (Kiladat El Nil) is Egypt's highest state honor. The award was instituted in 1915 by Sultan Hussein Kamel to be awarded by Egypt for exceptional services to the nation. It was reconstituted under the Arab Republic of Egypt on 18 June 1953.

It consists of the Grand Cordon, plus a Collar which is worn by the President of the Republic and may be granted to other Heads of State. Although the junior grades (Grand Officer, Commander, Officer and Knight) were originally documented, they are not believed to still be awarded and may have been abolished. In the Kingdom of Egypt the Order of the Nile ranked beneath the Order of Ismail.

Some appointees to the order

Peter Acland

Yuri Gagarin

George Francis Scott Elliot

Dr Hubert William Milligan, Royal Army Medical Corps,(4th Order) 7 March 1917

Emperor Akihito of Japan

King Idris of Libya – Grand Cordon

Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia

Richard Bevan (4th Class), 1919

Louis Bols (1867–1930)

Nelson Mandela

Harold Knox-Shaw

Earl Mountbatten of Burma, (fourth class) 1922

Charles Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey, 1915

General Sir Reginald Wingate, 1915

Naguib Pasha Mahfouz, 1919

Lancelot Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale, 1920

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Norman Seddon-Brown, 1927

Marshal Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav President, Grand Cordon with Collar (December 28, 1955)

Heinrich Rau (Grand Cordon), 1961

Walter Ulbricht, East-German president, 1965

Queen Elizabeth II (November 6, 1975)

Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said of Oman 1976

Émile Lahoud, president of Lebanon (2000)

Suharto, president of Indonesia

Makarios III, former president of Cyprus

George Vasiliou, former president of Cyprus

Major-General Sir Charlton Watson Spinks, last Sirdar of Egypt

Professor Ahmed Zewail

William E. Simon

William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood

Amha Selassie of Ethiopia

General William Peyton (second class), 1916

Eric Gascoigne Robinson

Aubrey Faulkner

Cecil L'Estrange Malone

Jagatjit Singh Bahadur (Grand Cordon)

John Percival, Egyptian Civil Service

Mervyn Whitfield, Political Branch, Public Security, Alexandria 1917

Hussein Refki Pasha (Grand Cordon)

Maurice Amos (Grand Cordon)

Youssef Zulficar Pasha (Grand Cordon)

Alexander Kearsey (3rd class)

His Holiness Dr. Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin (Grand Cordon)

Muhammad Naguib, First President of Egypt 1952 to 1953)after the end of Monarchy

Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh

Antonín Novotný, President of Czechoslovakia

Mohammed VI, King of Morocco.

Hassaballah El Kafrawy, Egyptian former of Development, Reconstruction, Housing,New Communities, Public Utilities and Land Reclamation (1977–1993)

Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Egyptian Field Marshal, former Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces of Egypt, August 2012.

Mohamed ElBaradei, He was the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from December 1997 to November 2009.

Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu a Turkish academic, diplomat and currently the Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the second largest intergovernmental organisation after the United Nations.

Pierre Gemayel, Founder of the Lebanese Phalange

Adly Mansour, acting president of Egypt from the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état until the swearing in of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia

Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan

References

Order of the Nile Wikipedia

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