The idea of Egypt being an "African" country seems to develop in around the midth century; [ citation needed ] the term Africa was classically reserved for what is now known as the Maghreb , to the explicit exclusion of Egypt, but with the exploration of Africa the shape of the African landmass and Egypt's "natural" inclusion in that landmass became apparent. This most notably includes the British Isles part of the European continental shelf and during the Ice Age of the continent itself , besides the islands of the North Sea , the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean which are part of the territory of a country situated on the European mainland, and usually also the island states of Iceland and Malta. African part of Egypt.
To the south, the Kuma—Manych Depression was identified circa by a German naturalist, Peter Simon Pallas , as a valley that, once upon a time, connected the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, [11] [12] and subsequently was proposed as a natural boundary between continents. Europe ends in the west at the Atlantic Ocean , although Iceland and the Azores archipelago in the Atlantic, between Europe and North America are usually considered European, as is the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
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