Al Minya (Arabic: محافظة المنيا ) is one of the governorates of Upper Egypt. The name originates from the chief city of the governorate, originally known in Sahidic Coptic as tmoone (ⲧⲙⲟⲟⲛⲉ) and in Bohairic as thmonē (ⲑⲙⲟⲛⲏ), meaning “the residence”, in reference to a monastery formerly in the area. (Even today, large numbers of Christians live in the governorate, particularly in the city of Mallawi, and there are a number of active monasteries concentrated in the region.) Image File history File links Egypt-Al_Minya. ... Arabic (; , less formally, ) is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... Egypt is divided into 26 governorates (muhafazat, singular - muhafazah): Ad Daqahliyah Al Bahr al Ahmar Al Buhayrah Al Fayyum Al Gharbiyah Al Iskandariyah Al Ismailiyah Al Jizah Al Minufiyah Al Minya Al Qahirah Al Qalyubiyah Al Wadi al Jadid Ash Sharqiyah As Suways Aswan Asyut Bani Suwayf Bur Sa... Map of Upper and Lower Egypt Ancient Egypt was divided into two kingdoms, known as Upper and Lower Egypt. ... Coptic is the last phase of ancient Egyptian. ... The Tikse monastery in Ladakh, India A monastery is the habitation of monks, derived from the Greek word for a hermits cell. ... Jesus Christ in a Coptic icon. ... Mallawi is a town in Egypt, located in the governorate of Al Minya. ...

Al Minya is dubbed by the locals عروس الصعيد or the "Bride of Upper-Egypt". This represents its vitality for linking north of the nation with upper Egypt (southern part), also to race with Alexandria; being nicknamed the "Bride of the Mediterranean Sea" — or عروس البحر المتوسط. The name may as well refer to a famous ancient Egyptian tradition, possibly near one of the ancient sites, known as the bride of the Nile, of a sacrificial practice of sinking a female virgin into the River Nile as a gift-wife for the annual flood to come high and early. ^{[citation needed]} This article needs to be updated. ... Satellite image The Mediterranean Sea is a part of the Atlantic Ocean almost completely enclosed by land, on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia. ... Ancient Egypt was a civilization located along the Lower Nile, reaching from the Nile Delta in the north to as far south as Jebel Barkal at the time of its greatest extension (15th century BC). ... An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic), and which has been investigated using the discipline of archaeology. ... In Roman times, Vestal Virgins were strictly celibate or they were punished by death. ... For alternative meanings of Nile, see Nile (disambiguation) The Nile in Egypt Length 6 695 km Elevation of the source 1 134 m Average discharge 2 830 m³/s Area watershed 3 400 000 km² Origin Africa Mouth the Mediterranean Basin countries Uganda - Sudan - Egypt The Nile (Arabic: النيل an... Look up Flood in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A flood (in Old English flod, a word common to Teutonic languages; compare German Flut, Dutch vloed from the same root as is seen in flow, float) is an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land, a deluge. ...

Location and setting

Al Minya lies on the western bank of the Nile, in the centre of the country almost midway between Cairo and Luxor. Its capital is of the same name, with nearly 300,000 inhabitants. While the governorate's total population exceeds 2 million (~5.5% of Egypt's total). Thus, it stands as one of the most highly populated governarates of Upper Egypt. It contains nine cities; 3,375 villages; and 10,875 hamlets, within the following nine boroughs, from north to south: Cairo (Arabic: القاهرة; transliterated: al-Qāhirah) is the capital city of Egypt (and previously the United Arab Republic) and has a metropolitan area population of approximately 15. ... The River Nile at Luxor Pharaonic statue in Luxor Temple Hot-air ballooning in Luxor Luxor (Arabic: الأقصر ) is a city in Upper (southern) Egypt and the capital of the Al Uqsur governorate, population approximately 200,000. ...

• Al Edwa
• Maghagha
• Bani Mazar
• Matariyah
• Samallout
• Al Minya City (the capital, 245 km. south of Cairo).
• Abu Qirqas
• Mallawi
• Dayr Muas

A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer), symbol: km is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words χίλια (khilia) = thousand and μέτρο (metro) = count/measure). ... Mallawi is a town in Egypt, located in the governorate of Al Minya. ...

Agriculture and industry

Al Minya Governorate is an important agricultural and industrial region. Among its principal crops are sugar-cane, cotton, beans, soya beans, garlic, onions, vegetables of various sorts, tomatoes, potatoes, watermelons, and grapes. Among the leading local industries are food processing (especially sugar and the drying and grinding of onions), spinning and weaving of cotton, perfumes, oils and fats, cement-making, quarrying (especially limestone), and brick-making. Species Ref: ITIS 42058 as of 2004-05-05 Sugarcane is one of six species of a tall tropical southeast Asian grass (Family Poaceae) having stout fibrous jointed stalks whose sap at one time was the primary source of sugar. ... Cotton plant as imagined and drawn by John Mandeville in the 14th century Cotton is a soft fiber that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant (Gossypium spp. ... This article is on the plant. ... Binomial name Glycine max Soybeans (US) or soya beans (UK) (Glycine max) are a high-protein legume (Family Fabaceae) grown as food for both humans and livestock. ... Binomial name Allium sativum L. Garlic (Allium sativum) is a perennial plant in the family Alliaceae and genus Allium, closely related to the onion, shallot, and leek. ... For the parody newspaper, see The Onion. ... Binomial name Solanumlycopersicum Linnaeus ref. ... Binomial name Solanum tuberosum L. The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is a perennial plant of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family, grown for its starchy tuber. ... Watermelon (Citrullus vulgaris; Family Cucurbitaceae) is the fruit and plant of a vine-like (climber and trailer) herb originally from southern Africa. ... Species Vitis acerifolia Vitis aestivalis Vitis amurensis Vitis arizonica Vitis x bourquina Vitis californica Vitis x champinii Vitis cinerea Vitis x doaniana Vitis girdiana Vitis labrusca Vitis x labruscana Vitis monticola Vitis mustangensis Vitis x novae-angliae Vitis palmata Vitis riparia Vitis rotundifolia Vitis rupestris Vitis shuttleworthii Vitis tiliifolia Vitis... Food processing is the methods and techniques used to transform raw ingredients into food for consumption by humans. ... Spinning refers to several activities: For the fabrication of thread, see Spinning (textiles). ... Tweed loom, Harris, 2004 Weaving is an ancient textile art and craft that involves placing two sets of threads or yarn made of fiber called the warp and weft of the loom and turning them into cloth. ... Cement is a material for bonding stone or brick. ... A small cinder quarry A dimension stone quarry A quarry is a type of open-pit mine from which rock or minerals are extracted. ... A weathered brick wall. ...

History

Very little is known today about Al Minya Governorate compared to its great wealth of important archaeological sites. Its remarkable history which highlights Pharonic, Roman, Byzantine, Coptic and Islamic periods has not yet received the full attention of scholars. An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic), and which has been investigated using the discipline of archaeology. ... Ancient Egypt was a civilization located along the Lower Nile, reaching from the Nile Delta in the north to as far south as Jebel Barkal at the time of its greatest extension (15th century BC). ... The conquests of Alexander the Great brought Egypt within the orbit of the Greek world for almost 900 years. ... The conquests of Alexander the Great brought Egypt within the orbit of the Greek world for almost 900 years. ... The conquests of Alexander the Great brought Egypt within the orbit of the Greek world for almost 900 years. ... From the initial Islamic invasion in 639 CE Egypt became part of the Arab world. ...

The Pharonic Period

Akoris is located on the eastern bank of the River Nile, about 10 km. north of Al Minya. It has a history dating from the Old Kingdom to the Roman period. The Old Kingdom is the name commonly given to that period in the 3rd millennium BC when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization complexity and achievement - this was the first of three so-called Kingdom periods, which mark the high points of civilization in the Nile Valley (the...

The village of Bani Hasan al Shurruq, which lies on the eastern bank of the Nile, 20 km. south of the city of Al Minya, houses 390 rock-cut decorated tombs and chapels from the Middle Kingdom (2000–1580 B.C., especially the sixteenth dynasty). The Speos Artemidos is near by. Beni Hasan (or Bani Hasan, or also Beni-Hassan) is a village in Middle Egypt about 25 km south of Al Minya (or Minieh), on the east bank of the Nile, with remarkable catacombs that have been excavated. ... The Middle Kingdom is: a old name for China a period in the History of Ancient Egypt, the Middle Kingdom of Egypt This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... (Redirected from 2000 B.C.) ... Categories: Articles to be expanded ... The Speos Artemidos (Modern: Istabl Antar), in Egypt, is located about 2 km south of the Middle Kingdom tombs at Beni Hasan, and about 28 km south of Al Minya. ...

Al Amarna lies on the eastern bank of the Nile, 67 km. south of al Minya. A city originally built (called then Akhetaten) by Pharaoh Akhnaten and dedicated to the god Aton. There Akhnaten lived with his beautiful wife, Nefertiti, and daughters in isolation, devoting himself to the monotheistic religion that he preached, after he abandoned the old capital of Thebes. The remains of the palaces, temples and noble tombs still exist today despite of the attempts by Horemheb to disassemble them after Akhnaten's death. Amarna (commonly known as el-Amarna) is the name given to an extensive archaeological site that represents the remains of the capital city built by the Pharaoh Akhenaten of the late Eighteenth Dynasty (c. ... Amarna (commonly known as el-Amarna) is the name given to an extensive archaeological site that represents the remains of the capital city built by the Pharaoh Akhenaten of the late Eighteenth Dynasty (c. ... Pharaoh (Arabic فرعون ) (Hebrew פַּרְעֹה ); is a title used to refer to the kings (of godly status) in ancient Egypt. ... Akhnaten may refer to: Akhenaten, the Egyptian pharaoh Akhnaten, an opera about the pharaoh This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Aten is a creator of the universe in ancient Egyptian mythology, usually regarded as a sun god represented by the suns disk. ... Bust of Nefertiti from Berlins Altes Museum. ... Monotheism (in Greek μόνος = single and θεός = God), in contrast with polytheism, is the belief in the one, single, universal, all-encompassing God. ... Thebes [Θηβαι ThÄ“bai] is the Greek designation of ancient Egyptian niwt (The) City and niwt-rst (The) Southern City. It is located about 800 km south of the Mediterranean, on the east bank of the Nile (25. ... nomen or birth name Djeserkheperure Horemheb was the last Pharaoh of Ancient Egypts 18th Dynasty from 1321 BC to early 1292 BC. Horemheb came from Herakleopolis Magna near the entrance to the Fayum. ...

Finally, in Mallawi there is the temple of Ramesses II built in commemoration of the god Thoth. This place contains also the Mallawi Museum with a collection of antiquities featuring items from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods in particular. Mallawi is a town in Egypt, located in the governorate of Al Minya. ... Ramesses II, Abu Simbel Ramesses II (also known as Ramesses the Great and alternatively transcribed as Ramses and Rameses) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty. ... Thoth (Ramesseum, Luxor) In Egyptian mythology, Thoth (also spelt Thot or Thout), pronounced tot, is the Greek name given to Djehuty (also spelt Tahuti, Tehuti, Zehuti, Techu, Tetu) - the original pronunciation of his name is disputed, and may have been approximately Tee-HOW-ti -, who was originally the deification of... The Ptolemaic dynasty was a Greek royal family which ruled over Egypt for nearly 300 years, from 305 BC to 30 BC. Ptolemy, a Macedonian and one of Alexander the Greats generals, was appointed satrap of Egypt after Alexanders death in 323 BC. In 305 BC he declared...

Other archaeological sites in the region include Zawyet el-Maiyitin, Dayr Abu Hinis, Dayr al Barsha, and al Shaykh Said. Zawyet el-Maiyitin (or Zawyet Sultan, Zawyet el-Amwat) is located in Egypt, about 7 km south of the modern town on Al Minya. ...

The Roman Times

The village of Al Ashmunayn was the capital at that time and it was called Hermopolis Magna–center of the god Thoth. It lies on the western bank of the Nile Valley, about 58 km. south of Al Minya. It contains the ruins of a Greek basilica similar to the Acropolis in Greece. Milions of embalmed ibis and baboons were also discovered in the nearby Tounah Al Gebel (10 km. south). As well as the tomb and chapel of Petosiris, the high priest. Black siltstone obelisk of King Nectanebo II. According to the vertical inscriptions he set up this obelisk at the doorway of the sanctuary of Thoth, the Twice-Great, Lord of Hermopolis. ... ... St. ... Acropolis in Athens. ... Genera Threskiornis Pseudibis Thaumatibis Geronticus Nipponia Bostrychia Theristicus Cercibis Mesembrinibis Phimosus Eudocimus Plegadis Lophotibis Ibises are a group of long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae. ... Species Papio hamadryas Papio papio Papio anubis Papio cynocephalus Papio ursinus The Baboon is the largest non-hominid member of the primate order. ... Tuna el-Gebel was the necropolis of Khmun (Hermopolis Magna). ... Tuna el-Gebel was the necropolis of Khmun (Hermopolis Magna). ...

Antinoupolis was built in 130 A.D. by the Roman emperor Hadrian in memory of his favorite cup-bearer Antinous. Located on the eastern bank of the Nile, about 25 km. south of Al Minya. It also contains monuments dating from the reign of Ramesses III. Antinous was a constellation south of Aquila. ... For other uses, see number 130. ... Anno Domini (In the Year of the Lord), abbreviated as AD or A.D. defines an epoch based on the traditionally-reckoned year of the birth (or actually Incarnation) of Jesus of Nazareth. ... Roman Emperor is the term historians use to refer to rulers of the Roman Empire, after the epoch conventionally named the Roman Republic. ... A bust of Hadrian. ... Bust of Antinous in the Palazzo Altemps museum in Rome Antinous or Antinoos (Greek: Αντινοος, born circa 110 or 111 CE, died 130 CE), lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, was born to a Greek family in Bithynion-Claudiopolis, in the province of Bithynia in what is now north-west Turkey. ... Osirid statues of Ramses III at his temple at Medinet Habu. ...

The Byzantine ("Coptic") Period

The Monstary of the Virgin stands on Gabal Al Tayr, Mountain of the Birds, some 40 km. north of Al Minya on the eastern bank of the Nile Valley. The church was built by Empress Helena mother of Constantine the Great, in 328, on the site where it is claimed that Mary, Jesus and Joseph of Nazareth stayed during their flight to Egypt. Helena on a coin. ... Contemporary bronze head of Constantine. ... Events May 9: Athanasius is elected bishop of Alexandria Births Valens, Roman Emperor Wong Tai Sin Deaths April 17: Alexander I, Patriarch of Alexandria Categories: 328 ... Saint Mary and Saint Mary the Virgin both redirect here. ... Jesus is the current Good Article Collaboration of the week! Please help take it from Good to Featured article status. ... Joseph of Nazareth, also called Joseph the Betrothed and Saint Joseph, was the legal father of Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 1:16; Luke 3:23) and the husband of Mary. ...

Oxyrhynchus dates back to the Islamic Conquest of Egypt. Numerous Greek and Roman monuments indicate the existence of strong alliance back then between the Arabs and the local Copts by depicting an epic of a struggle against the Roman oppression. Oxyrhynchus (Greek: Οξύρυγχος; sharp-nosed; ancient Egyptian Per-Medjed; modern Arabic el-Bahnasa) is an archaeological site in Egypt, considered one of the most important ever discovered. ... For other uses, see Arab (disambiguation). ...

The Islamic Period

Finally, Al Shaykh Abadah contains important monuments dedicated to the renowned Muslim warrior Ibadah Ibn Al Samet, Ibadah son of the silent.

While Maghagha hosts the mosque of the noted Muslim, Zayid ibn al Mugharah.

Trivia

• Al Minya Governarate has a university.
• Al Minya Governarate signed a partnership with the twin city Hildes Heimin in (West) Germany on July 18, 1979.
• Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak, the first lady of Egypt, was born near Al Minya City.

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Source

• The Egyptian Tourist Authority, - ETA.

External links

• The Govornerate's Official web page.
• Al Minya University web page.

Governorates of Egypt
Ad Daqahliyah | Al Bahr al Ahmar | Al Buhayrah | Al Fayyum | Al Gharbiyah | Al Iskandariyah | Al Isma'iliyah | Al Jizah | Al Minufiyah | Al Minya | Al Qahirah | Al Qalyubiyah | Al Uqsur | Al Wadi al Jadid | Ash Sharqiyah | As Suways | Aswan | Asyut | Bani Suwayf | Bur Sa'id | Dimyat | Janub Sina' | Kafr ash Shaykh | Matruh | Qina | Shamal Sina' | Suhaj