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{{infobox military award
| name = Order of the Nile ''Kiladat El Nil''
| image = [[File:Order of the Nile, 4th class.jpg|160px]]
| caption = Badge of the 4th class of the Order, Officer.
| presenter = [[File:Flag of Egypt (1922–1953).svg|25px]] [[Kingdom of Egypt]]
| country =Egypt
| type = [[Order (decoration)|Order]]
| eligibility =
| awarded_for = Rendering useful service to Egypt
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| established = 1915<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/ww1-awards/?id=19#19 |title=University of Glasgow. First World War Roll of Honour, Decorations & Awards |access-date=4 March 2011 |archive-date=14 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101014221841/http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/ww1-awards/?id=19#19 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| firstawarded =[[Reginald Wingate|General Sir Reginald Wingate]], 1915
| lastawarded = [[Mufaddal Saifuddin]], 2023
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| related = [[Order of Ismail]]
| image2 = [[File:EGY Order of the Nile - Grand Cordon BAR.svg|100px]] Ribbon bar for Grand Cordon [[File:EGY Order of the Nile - Grand Officer BAR.svg|100px]] Ribbon bar for Grand Officer [[File:EGY Order of the Nile - Commander BAR.svg|100px]] Ribbon bar for Commander [[File:EGY Order of the Nile - Officer BAR.svg|100px]] Ribbon bar for Officer [[File:EGY Order of the Nile - Knight BAR.svg|100px]] Ribbon bar for Knight
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{{infobox military award
| name = Order of the Nile ''Kiladat El Nil''
| image = [[File:Orden Nila znak.jpg|160px]] [[File:Order of the Nile, star (Republic of Egypt).jpg|200px]]
| caption = Badge of the Collar of the Nile and star of the order
| presenter = Republic of {{EGY}}
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| type = [[Order (decoration)|Order]]
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| awarded_for = Exceptional valuable public service to the Republic of Egypt.
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| established = 18 June 1953, as a reconstituted Order by the new Republic
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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.<ref name=Dorling>{{cite book|last=Dorling|first=H. Taprell|title=Ribbons and Medals|year=1956|publisher=A. H. Baldwin & Son, London|page=190}}</ref> 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:<ref name=Dorling/> 
# 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 (decoration)|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.<ref name=Medals/> It now consists of:
# Collar: worn by the President of the Republic and may be granted to other [[Head of state|Heads of State]].<ref name=Awards>{{cite news|title=Collar of the Nile|url=http://wawards.org/en/egypt/republic-of-egypt/collar-of-the-nile.html|publisher=World Awards|access-date=3 February 2018|archive-date=31 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731225540/http://wawards.org/en/egypt/republic-of-egypt/collar-of-the-nile.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Medals>{{cite web|url=http://www.medals.org.uk/egypt/egypt-republic/egypt-republic002.htm|title=Republic of Egypt: Order of the Nile|publisher=Medals of the World|access-date=3 February 2018|archive-date=12 June 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090612191730/http://www.medals.org.uk/egypt/egypt-republic/egypt-republic002.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
# Grand Cordon: awarded for exceptional services to the nation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wawards.org/en/egypt/republic-of-egypt/order-of-the-nile.html|title=Order of the Nile|publisher=World Awards|access-date=3 February 2018|archive-date=31 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731225545/http://wawards.org/en/egypt/republic-of-egypt/order-of-the-nile.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Regarding this class, the badge of the order is 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,<ref>{{cite book|last=Dorling|first=H. Taprell|title=Ribbons and Medals|year=1956|publisher=A. H. Baldwin & Son, London|page=192}}</ref> the four more junior grades (i.e. Grand Officer, Commander, Officer and Knight) are no longer awarded.<ref name=Medals/>

==Some appointees to the order==
===Sultanate and Kingdom of Egypt (1915–1953)===
* Brigadier [[Peter Acland]] (4th class), 1936<ref>{{cite news|title=London Gazette|date=7 August 1936|page=5175|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34312/page/5175|access-date=3 February 2018|archive-date=19 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180219001420/https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34312/page/5175|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Sir [[Pratap Singh of Idar ]] (Grand Cordon), 1918
* Judge Sir [[Maurice Amos]] (Grand Cordon)
* Maharaja [[Jagatjit Singh Bahadur]] of [[Kapurthala State|Kapurthala]] (Grand Cordon), 1924
* Rear Admiral [[Richard Bevan (Royal Navy officer)|Richard Bevan]] (4th Class), 1919
* Field Marshall [[William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood|Lord Birdwood]]
* Lieutenant General [[Louis Bols]]
* Lieutenant Colonel [[Arthur Borton]] VC, DSO (3rd Class)<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31002|date=8 November 1918|page=13274|supp= y}}</ref>
* [[Howard Carter]], British archaeologist and Egyptologist (3rd Class), 1926<ref>[[The Scotsman]], Saturday 27 March 1926, page 8.</ref>
* [[Jovan Dučić]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Acović|first=Dragomir|title=Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima|year=2012|location=Belgrade|publisher=Službeni Glasnik|pages=346}}</ref>
* Major [[Aubrey Faulkner]]
* Major General [[Harold Franklyn]], Commandant [[Sudan Defence Force]], 1939<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34713|page=7038|date=20 October 1939}}</ref>
* Major [[Harry Gardner (cricketer)|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]]
* [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma|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)
* Admiral [[Francis Mitchell (Royal Navy officer)]]
* Rear Admiral [[Eric Gascoigne Robinson]]
* Captain [[George Francis Scott Elliot]]
* Dr. Hassan Omar Shaheen - Professor of ENT [[Qasr El Eyni Hospital|Kasr El-Aini Hospital]], Cairo. Circa 1920
* Major-General [[Charlton Spinks|Sir Charlton Watson Spinks]], last Sirdar of Egypt (Grand Cordon), 1931<ref name=LG>{{cite news|title=London Gazette|date=10 April 1931|page=2330|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33706/page/2330|access-date=3 February 2018|archive-date=4 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204071446/https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33706/page/2330|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 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)
* [[Oswald Longstaff Prowde]], English civil engineer

===Republic of Egypt (from 1953)===
* King [[Hussein of Jordan]] (1955)
*Marshal [[Josip Broz Tito]], President of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (1956)
* Prof. [[Amintore Fanfani]], [[Prime Minister of Italy|Prime Minister]] and ad-interim [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Italy)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] of the [[Italy|Republic of Italy]] (1959)
* [[President of the United States|President]] [[Jimmy Carter]], [[President of the United States]] (1979)
* [[Emperor Akihito of Japan]]
* Emperor [[Amha Selassie of Ethiopia]]
* [[Mohammed Burhanuddin]], 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq of the [[Dawoodi Bohra]] (1978)
* King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of [[Thailand]]
* [[Mohamed ElBaradei]], former Director General of the [[International Atomic Energy Agency]] (IAEA)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.masress.com/en/ahramweekly/2865|title=Mohamed ElBaradei|access-date=21 September 2014|archive-date=14 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414184001/http://www.masress.com/en/ahramweekly/2865|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]], November 1975
* [[Hassaballah El Kafrawy]], Egyptian former Minister of Development, Reconstruction, Housing, New Communities, Public Utilities and Land Reclamation
* [[King of Saudi Arabia|King]] [[Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud]] of [[Saudi Arabia]], 1989
* [[Yuri Gagarin]], [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Astronaut|cosmonaut]]
* [[Pierre Gemayel]], founder of the [[Kataeb Party|Lebanese Phalange]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/7294|title=Amin Gemayel to March 14: Keep Out of Syria|access-date=21 September 2014|archive-date=27 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227013216/http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/7294|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Emperor of Ethiopia|Emperor]] [[Haile Selassie]] of [[Ethiopia]]
* [[King of Bahrain|King]] [[Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa]] of [[Bahrain]], 2016
* King [[Idris of Libya]] (Grand Cordon)
* [[Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu]], [[Turkish people|Turkish]] academic, diplomat and former Secretary-General of the [[Organisation of Islamic Cooperation]] (OIC)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/140123.htm |title=Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) |publisher=US Department of State |access-date=16 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305211843/http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/140123.htm |archive-date=March 5, 2012 }}</ref>
* [[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 (Egypt)|Supreme Constitutional Court]] and acting [[President of Egypt]] following the [[2013 Egyptian coup d'etat]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Sisi offers Mansour Order of the Nile|url=http://www.egyptindependent.com//news/sisi-offers-mansour-order-nile|website=Egypt Independent|date=9 June 2014|access-date=10 June 2014|archive-date=14 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140614212826/http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/sisi-offers-mansour-order-nile|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[King of Morocco|King]] [[Mohammed VI of Morocco|Mohammed VI]] of [[Morocco]]
* [[Muhammad Naguib]], First [[President of Egypt]]
* [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]], President of Kazakhstan<ref>[http://www.akorda.kz/en/page/page_president-nursultan-nazarbayev-arrived-in-egyptian-sharm-el-sheikh-to-take-part-_1348723258?print=1 Official site of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan: President Nursultan Nazarbayev in Egypt for the World Economic Forum on the Middle East.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402154124/http://www.akorda.kz/en/page/page_president-nursultan-nazarbayev-arrived-in-egyptian-sharm-el-sheikh-to-take-part-_1348723258?print=1 |date=2 April 2015 }}</ref>
* [[Antonín Novotný]], President of [[Czechoslovakia]]
* [[Sultan]] [[Qaboos bin Said al Said]] of [[Oman]],{{cn|date=August 2020}} 1976
* [[Ziaur Rahman]], President of [[Bangladesh]]
* [[Heinrich Rau]], East German politician (Grand Cordon), 1961
* [[King of Saudi Arabia|King]] [[Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud]] of [[Saudi Arabia]], 1954
* [[Monarchy of Cambodia|King]] [[Norodom Sihanouk]] of [[Cambodia]]
* [[William E. Simon]], [[United States Secretary of the Treasury|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|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]]
* [[Magdi Yacoub|Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub]], Professor of [[Cardiothoracic surgery|Cardiothoracic Surgery]]
* Professor [[Ahmed Zewail]], [[Egyptian Americans|Egyptian-American]] scientist
* [[Katerina Sakellaropoulou]], [[President of Greece]], 2020
* [[Salva Kiir Mayardit]], [[List of heads of state of South Sudan|President of South Sudan]], 2020
* [[Haitham bin Tariq]], [[List of rulers of Oman|Sultan of Oman]], 2023
* [[Narendra Modi]], [[Prime Minister of India]], 2023
* [[Mufaddal Saifuddin]], 53rd Da'i al-Mutlaq of the [[Dawoodi Bohra]]s, 2023<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-08-07 |title=الرئيس السيسى يمنح "سلطان البهرة" وشاح النيل تقديرا لجهوده المتواصلة فى مصر |url=https://www.youm7.com/story/2023/8/7/الرئيس-السيسى-يمنح-سلطان-البهرة-وشاح-النيل-تقديرا-لجهوده-المتواصلة/6264897 |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=اليوم السابع |language=ar}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Orders, decorations, and medals of Egypt]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{commonscat-inline|Order of the Nile}}

[[Category:Orders, decorations, and medals of Egypt|Nile, Order of the]]
[[Category:Orders of chivalry awarded to heads of state, consorts and sovereign family members|Nile, Order of the]]
[[Category:Awards established in 1915]]
[[Category:1915 establishments in Egypt]]

Order of the Nile - Revision history

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