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Egyptian Australians are Australian citizens of Egyptian descent. According to the Australian 2011 Census, 36,532 Australian residents declared that they were born in Egypt〔 and based on the 2006 Census, 31,786 declared that they were of Egyptian ancestry either alone or with another ancestry.〔 Egyptian Australians might also have nominated themselves as being of Coptic ancestry (1,890 total responses in the 2006 Census).〔 Additionally, the 2006 Census shows that the majority of Egypt-born Australian residents are located in Sydney (16,238) or Melbourne (11,156), with smaller communities located in Perth (1,407), Adelaide (982) and Brisbane (897).〔(of Birth of Person (full classification list) by Sex&producttype=Census Tables&method=Place of Usual Residence&areacode=0 ABS Census - Country of Birth, 2006 )〕 Immigration from Egypt was significant in the late 1940s and 1950s, with minorities escaping the growing Arab nationalist movement in Egypt which saw the overthrow of the Egyptian monarchy and the subsequent Suez Crisis.〔(Museum of Victoria )〕 Around 2,000 Egyptian Jews left in this period.〔(The Migration Experience of the Jews of Egypt to Australia 1948 – 1967, Rachel Marlene Barda )〕 However the majority of Egyptian-Australians are Copts, with 19,928 Australian residents declaring membership of the Coptic Orthodox Church at the 2006 Census.〔(Affiliation (full classification list) by Sex&producttype=Census Tables&method=Place of Usual Residence&areacode=020680-Religious Affiliation (full classification list) by Sex - Australia )〕 It was claimed in the New South Wales Parliament in 2003 that there were 70,000 Copts in New South Wales.〔(Parliament of New South Wales Hansard, 12 November 2003 )〕 ==Notable people== *Ahmed Saad *Taj El-Din Hilaly *Robert Kabbas *Naguib Kanawati *Amir Elsaid *Akmal Saleh *Sam Soliman *Joseph Tawadros *Bishop Angaelos *Waleed Aly 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Egyptian Australians」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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