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Egypt has basically always been called Egypt, which comes from an Ancient Greek word meaning. It was also sometimes called Kumet and is Masr in Arabic.

As a colony first of Greece, hence the name, then Roman, Mamluk, Ottoman and British governments Egypt has sort of been a colony since antiquity...

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