The Sinai Peninsula or Sinia is a triangular peninsula in Egypt which is about 60,000 km2 (23,000 sq mi). It lies between the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the south and is the only part of Egyptian territory located in Asia as opposed to Africa, effectively serving as a land bridge between the two continents.
All three of the West's great religious traditions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam know Sinai as a holy land, a vast expanse traversed time and again by prophets, saints, pilgrims and warriors. Sinai is most familiar to many as the wilderness through which the Israelites wandered for forty years, however it was also the path by which Amr swept down into Egypt in 640 AD, bringing Islam in his wake. Even after the Muslim conquest, the monks of St. Catherine Monastery (founded in 547 AD) continued to greet pilgrims to the site of the Burning Bush.
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