Order of the Nile
| Order of the Nile Kiladat El Nil | |
|---|---|
 Badge of the 4th class of the Order, Officer. | |
| Type | Order |
| Awarded for | Rendering useful service to Egypt |
| Presented by |  Kingdom of Egypt |
| Established | 1915[1] |
| Last awarded | 1953 on the abolition of the monarchy |
 Ribbon bar for Grand Cordon  Ribbon bar for Grand Officer  Ribbon bar for Commander  Ribbon bar for Officer  Ribbon bar for Knight | |
| Precedence | |
| Next (higher) | Order of Ismail |
| Order of the Nile Kiladat El Nil | |
|---|---|
  Badge of the Collar of the Nile and star of the order | |
| Type | Order |
| Awarded for | Exceptional valuable public service to the Republic of Egypt. |
| Presented by | Republic of  Egypt |
| Established | 18 June 1953, as a reconstituted Order by the new Republic |
Ribbon bar for Grand Cordon | |
| Precedence | |
| Next (lower) | Order of the Republic (Egypt) |
The Order of the Nile (Kiladat El Nil) was established in 1915 and was one of the Kingdom of Egypt's principal orders until the monarchy was abolished in 1953. It was then reconstituted as the Republic of Egypt's highest state honor.
Sultanate and Kingdom of Egypt[]
The Order was established in 1915 by Sultan Hussein Kamel of Egypt for award to persons who had rendered useful service to the country.[2] It ranked beneath the Order of Ismail and was frequently awarded to British officers and officials serving in Egypt, as well as distinguished Egyptian citizens.
The order comprised five classes:[2]
- Grand Cordon: Badge worn from a sash over the right shoulder, with a star on the left chest.
- Grand Officer: Badge worn around the neck, with a smaller star on the left chest.
- Commander: Badge worn around the neck.
- Officer: Badge worn on the left chest from a ribbon bearing a rosette.
- Knight: Badge worn on the left chest from a plain ribbon.
Republic of Egypt[]
After Egypt became a republic in 1953 the Order of the Nile was reconstituted to serve as Egypt's highest state honor.[3] It now consists of:
- The Collar of the Nile, worn by the President of the Republic and may be granted to other Heads of State.[4][3]
- The Order of the Nile, awarded for exceptional services to the nation.[5] It has a single Grand Cordon class, with the badge of the order worn from a sash and the star of the order worn on the left chest. Although the five class structure of the original 1915 order was mentioned when the order was restructured in 1953,[6] the four more junior grades are no longer awarded.[3]
Some appointees to the order[]
Sultanate and Kingdom of Egypt (1915–1953)[]
- Brigadier Peter Acland (4th class), 1936[7]
- Judge Sir Maurice Amos (Grand Cordon)
- Maharaja Jagatjit Singh Bahadur of Kapurthala (Grand Cordon), 1924
- Rear Admiral Richard Bevan (4th Class), 1919
- Field Marshall Lord Birdwood
- Lieutenant General Louis Bols
- Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Borton VC, DSO (3rd Class)[8]
- Howard Carter, British archaeologist and Egyptologist (3rd Class), 1926[9]
- Jovan Dučić[10]
- Major Aubrey Faulkner
- Major General Harold Franklyn, Commandant Sudan Defence Force, 1939[11]
- Major Harry Gardner (4th Class), 1922
- Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Kearsey (3rd Class)
- Harold Knox-Shaw, British astronomer
- Lancelot Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale, 1920
- Naguib Pasha Mahfouz, obstetrician and gynecologist, 1919
- Lieutenant Colonel Cecil L'Estrange Malone
- Earl Mountbatten of Burma, (fourth class), 1922
- Charles Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey, 1915
- General Sir William Peyton (2nd Class), 1916
- General Hussein Refki Pasha (Grand Cordon)
- Rear Admiral Eric Gascoigne Robinson
- Captain George Francis Scott Elliot
- Dr. Hassan Omar Shaheen - Professor of ENT Kasr El-Aini Hospital, Cairo. Circa 1920
- Major-General Sir Charlton Watson Spinks, last Sirdar of Egypt (Grand Cordon), 1931[12]
- Dr. Oskar Stross, Austrian Consul General
- Mervyn Whitfield, Political Branch, Public Security, Alexandria, 1917
- General Sir Reginald Wingate, 1915
- Judge Youssef Zulficar Pasha (Grand Cordon)
Republic of Egypt (from 1953)[]
- King Hussein of Jordan (1955)
- Marshal Josip Broz Tito, President of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (1956)
- President Jimmy Carter, President of the United States (1979)
- Emperor Akihito of Japan
- Emperor Amha Selassie of Ethiopia
- Dr Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, Islamic leader (Grand Cordon)
- Mohamed ElBaradei, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)[13]
- Queen Elizabeth II, November 1975
- Hassaballah El Kafrawy, Egyptian former Minister of Development, Reconstruction, Housing, New Communities, Public Utilities and Land Reclamation
- King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, 1989
- Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut
- Pierre Gemayel, founder of the Lebanese Phalange[14]
- Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
- King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain, 2016
- King Idris of Libya (Grand Cordon)
- Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Turkish academic, diplomat and former Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)[15]
- Émile Lahoud, President of Lebanon, 2000
- Makarios III, former President of Cyprus
- Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa
- Adly Mansour, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court and acting President of Egypt following the 2013 Egyptian coup d'etat[16]
- King Mohammed VI of Morocco
- Muhammad Naguib, First President of Egypt
- Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan[17]
- Antonín Novotný, President of Czechoslovakia
- Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said of Oman,[citation needed] 1976
- Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh
- Heinrich Rau, East German politician (Grand Cordon), 1961
- King Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, 1954
- King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia
- William E. Simon, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
- Suharto, President of Indonesia
- Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, former Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces of Egypt, August 2012
- Marshal Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia, (Grand Cordon with Collar), December 1955
- Walter Ulbricht, President of East Germany, 1965
- George Vasiliou, former President of Cyprus
- Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Professor Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American scientist
- Katerina Sakellaropoulou, President of Greece, 2020
References[]
- ^ "University of Glasgow. First World War Roll of Honour, Decorations & Awards". Retrieved 4 March 2011.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Dorling, H. Taprell (1956). Ribbons and Medals. A. H. Baldwin & Son, London. p. 190.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Republic of Egypt: Order of the Nile". Medals of the World. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
- ^ "Collar of the Nile". World Awards. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
- ^ "Order of the Nile". World Awards. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
- ^ Dorling, H. Taprell (1956). Ribbons and Medals. A. H. Baldwin & Son, London. p. 192.
- ^ "London Gazette". 7 August 1936. p. 5175. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
- ^ "No. 31002". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 November 1918. p. 13274.
- ^ The Scotsman, Saturday 27 March 1926, page 8.
- ^ Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 346.
- ^ "No. 34713". The London Gazette. 20 October 1939. p. 7038.
- ^ "London Gazette". 10 April 1931. p. 2330. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
- ^ "Mohamed ElBaradei". Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- ^ "Amin Gemayel to March 14: Keep Out of Syria". Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- ^ "Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)". US Department of State. Archived from the original on March 5, 2012. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
- ^ "Sisi offers Mansour Order of the Nile". Egypt Independent. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ Official site of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan: President Nursultan Nazarbayev in Egypt for the World Economic Forum on the Middle East. Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine
External links[]
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