page_title: Italian Egyptians
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Italian Egyptians / History
caption_attribution_description: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944)
context_page_description: Italians in Egypt, also referred to as Italian Egyptians, are a community with a history that goes back to Roman times.
context_section_description: The last Queen of ancient Egypt (the Greek Cleopatra) married the Roman Mark Antony bringing her country as "dowry", and since then Egypt was part of the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire for centuries. Many people from the Italian peninsula moved to live in Egypt during those centuries: the tombs of Christian Alexandria shows how deep that presence was.
  Since then there has been a continuous presence of people (born in the Italian peninsula) and their descendants in Egypt.
caption: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian Egyptian born in Alexandria and founder of the international Futurism movement
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