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Ethnic Egyptians made up the majority of the population in Egypt. However, thousands of Greeks, Jews, Italians, Maltese, Armenians and Syro-Lebanese were present in Egypt. These communities were known as the [[Mutamassirun]] (Egyptianized). Despite the fact these communities were foreigners, they took part in Egyptian society and were considered to be homogenous groups by Egyptian nationalists. The Mutammassirun community had most of its members leaving Egypt in the 1950s. After the Suez Crisis of 1956, more than 1,000 of 18,000 people who carried British or French nationality were expelled and were only allowed to take one suitcase with them and a small sum of cash.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hofstadter |first1=Dan |title=Egypt & Nasser: 1952–56 |date=1973 |isbn=9780871962034 |page=227 |edition=Vol. 1 Facts on File |url=https://books.google.com.sa/books?id=YjmPAAAAIAAJ |quote="Egyptian Interior Min. Zakaria Mohieddin said Dec. 9 that, of some 18,000 British and French citizens in Egypt, 1,452 had been ordered expelled from the country."}}</ref>