Salam Affandina
| English: Greetings to our Lord | |
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| سلام أفندينا | |
Former national anthem of Egypt | |
| Also known as | السلام الجمهورى المصرى (English: Egyptian Republican Anthem) |
| Music | Giuseppe Pugioli, 1871 |
| Adopted | 1871 (by the Khedivate of Egypt) 1914 (by the Sultanate of Egypt) |
| Relinquished | 1958 (by the United Arab Republic) |
| Succeeded by | "Wallāh Zamān, Yā Silāḥī" |
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Performed by the Royal Australian Air Force Central Band in 1957, directed by Laurence Henry Hicks.
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"Salām Affandīnā" (Arabic: سلام أفندينا; lit. 'Salute of Our Lord') was the national anthem of Egypt from 1871 to 1922 and 1936–1952, then it was replaced by "Nashīd al-Ḥurriyya" (lit. 'Hymn of Freedom'). It was renamed "Egyptian Republican Anthem" (السلام الجمهورى المصرى, As-Salām al-Jamhūrī al-Maṣrī) in 1953 after the Egyptian revolution of 1952. It was instrumental and had no official lyrics.