Sultanate of Eygpt and Arabia (Arabia for short)

[Galveston Bay]

Egypt/Levant/Arabia become independent in 1826
(includes Alexandretta and Antioch on World in Flames map, also, Egypt, Libya, Palestine, Jordan on that map)


2 Craft Center Alexandria, Damascus
3 Resources (Food, Cotton x 2) in Egypt, 1 Iron (Alexandretta)
5 Major port: Alexandria
13 minor ports: Daimetta, Port Said, Suez, Bardia, Tobruk, Tripoli, Beghazi, Homs (the Libyan Barbary pirates have turned to slave trading and smuggling), Alexandretta, Haifa, Beriut, Tripoli, Jaffa
the road network in Egypt is nonexistant outside of cities
Financial; 50 (Egypt is the primary source of investment capital for North Africa and Arabia)
additional income: the Haj generates 10 points a year, while Jerusalem generates 5 points a year
total income: 89 points x 1.5 commercial = 133.5 + 1.5 special = 135
Tech level 3 commercial nation
(and looking to modernize aggressively)

military forces:
Egypt
Mamalukes - destroyed in 1810 by Mohammed Ali
Egyptian Army- 1 Expeditionary Army (northern Syria) (25,000)
1 expeditionary army (garrison) watches border with Sudan and garrisons Sinai (25,00)
1 garrison army in Syria/Palestine (65,000 men)
10 garrison brigades - garrisons ports and Cairo as security force (25,000)
fortress- Alexandria (1,000)
Militia- 30 militia brigades (all infantry)75,000
Militia Cavalry- can draw upon 5 brigades of Berber Light cavalry, no more than 5 regiments at a time (5,000)
maintenance

Egyptian Fleet: 6 BB2, 25 Frigates, 40 Brigs (Mediterranean) plus 20 brigs from Libya (feudal naval militia) plus 5 Brigs in Red Sea (Blue Water Navy, double maintenance)
total: 7500 regulars plus 1000 Libyans
maintenance:

maintenance will be updated during 1827 build

French Ally, with French Navy allowed to base their ships in Egyptian/Levantine ports
discussion underway regarding a future highway connecting Mediterranean and Red Sea along Suez route
British and other nations have been granted free trade with the Sultanate of Arabia