Map of Egypt showing Al Minya Governorate.

Al Minya (Arabic: محافظة المنيا ) (also AL-Minia) 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. ... Image File history File links Egypt-Al_Minya. ... Arabic ( or just ) is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers. ... 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 most recent phase of ancient Egyptian. ... Monastery of St. ... 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 in linking the north of the nation with upper Egypt (to the south), also by analogy with Alexandria, nicknamed the "Bride of the Mediterranean Sea" — or عروس البحر المتوسط. The name may also refer to a famous ancient Egyptian tradition, possibly near one of the local ancient sites, known as the bride of the Nile. This was a sacrificial practice of sinking a female virgin into the River Nile as a token wife for the annual flood to come high and early. [1] ---- Alexandria (Greek: , Coptic: , Arabic: , Egyptian Arabic: Iskindireyya), (population of 3. ... Composite satellite image of the Mediterranean Sea. ... Khafres Pyramid (4th dynasty) and Great Sphinx of Giza (c. ... 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: ا&#1604... Tokenism refers to a policy or practice of limited inclusion of members of a minority group, usually creating a false appearance of inclusive practices, intentional or not. ... Picture of flooding in Amphoe Sena, Ayutthaya Province, (.)(.) For other uses, see Flood (disambiguation). ...

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. The governorate's total population exceeds 2 million (~5.5% of Egypt's total); it is one of the most highly populated governorates of Upper Egypt. It contains nine cities; 3,375 villages; and 10,875 hamlets, within the following nine boroughs, from north to south: Nickname: Al Qahirah (The Triumphant City) Cairos location in Egypt Coordinates: Governor Dr. Abdul Azim Wazir Area    - City 210 km²  - Metro 1,492 km² Population (2005)  - City 7,438,376  - Density 35,420/km²  - Urban 10,834,495  - Metro 15,200,000 Time zone EET (UTC+2)  - Summer (DST... 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
• Matai
• Samallout
• Al Minya City (the capital, 245 km south of Cairo).
• Abu Quorqas
• Mallawi
• Deir Muas

Matai is a city in the governorate of Al Minya in Upper Egypt. ... Al Minya Al Minya is a city in Egypt. ... Nickname: Al Qahirah (The Triumphant City) Cairos location in Egypt Coordinates: Governor Dr. Abdul Azim Wazir Area    - City 210 km²  - Metro 1,492 km² Population (2005)  - City 7,438,376  - Density 35,420/km²  - Urban 10,834,495  - Metro 15,200,000 Time zone EET (UTC+2)  - Summer (DST... 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 ready for harvest. ... 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 set of methods and techniques used to transform raw ingredients into food for consumption by humans. ... A hand-turned spinning wheel in action Cones of yarn for industrial use Spinning is the process of creating yarn (or thread, rope, cable) from various raw fiber materials. ... Tweed loom, Harris, 2004 Woven sheet 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. ... In the most general sense of the word, cement is a binder, a substance which sets and hardens independently, and can bind other materials together. ... A small cinder quarry A dimension stone quarry A quarry is a type of open-pit mine from which rock or minerals are extracted. ... An old brick wall in English bond laid with alternating courses of headers and Brick is an artificial stone made by forming clay into rectangular blocks which are hardened, either by burning in a kiln or sometimes, in warm countries, by sun-drying. ...

History

Very little is known today about Al Minya Governorate compared to its great wealth of important archaeological sites. Its remarkable history, including Pharonic, Hellenistic, Roman 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. ... Khafres Pyramid (4th dynasty) and Great Sphinx of Giza (c. ... The Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt began following Alexander the Greats conquest in 332 BC and ended with the death of Cleopatra VII and the Roman conquest in 30 BC. It was founded when Ptolemy I Soter declared himself Pharaoh of Egypt, creating a powerful Hellenistic state from southern Syria... The Roman Empire ca. ... From the initial Islamic invasion in 639 AD 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. Akoris (Ancient Egyptian: Dehenet) is the Greek name for the modern Egyptian village of (Arabic ‎), located roughly midway between Madinat al-Fayyum and Asyut, about 10km north of al Minya. ... 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, 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 The site of Amarna (commonly known as el-Amarna or incorrectly as Tel el-Amarna; see below) (Arabic: العمارنة al-‘amārnä) is located on the east bank of the Nile River in the modern Egyptian province of al-Minya, some 58 km (38 miles) south of the city of... 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 was the ancient Egyptian name for the office of kingship. ... 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. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Bust of Nefertiti from Berlins Altes Museum. ... In theology, monotheism (Greek μόνος(monos) = single and θεός(theos) = God) is the belief in the existence of one deity or God, or in the oneness of God. ... Thebes For the ancient capital of Boeotia, see Thebes, Greece. ... Djeserkheperure Setepenre Holy are the Manifestations of Re, Chosen of Re Nomen Horemheb Meryamun Horus is in Jubilation, Beloved of Amun Consort(s) Mutnedjmet Amenia Died 1292 BC Burial KV57 Djeserkheperure Horemheb was the last Pharaoh of Ancient Egypts 18th Dynasty from c. ...

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. ... Usermaatre-setepenre The Justice of Re is Powerful, Chosen of Re Nomen Ramesses (meryamun) Born of Re, (Beloved of Amun) Horus name Kanakht Merymaa Nebty name Mekkemetwafkhasut Golden Horus Userrenput-aanehktu Consort(s) Isetnofret, Nefertari Maathorneferure Issues Bintanath, Khaemweset, Merneptah, Amun-her-khepsef, Meritamen see also: List of children of... , or , or [1] Thoth (Ramesseum, Luxor) Thoth, a Greek name derived from the Egyptian * (djih-how-tee) (written by Egyptians as ) was considered one of the most important deities of the Egyptian pantheon. ... cleopatra ruled seneca for 10 years before she ruled Egypt. ...

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. ... Dayr al-Barsha is a Coptic village in middle Egypt. ...

The Roman Times

The village of Al Ashmunayn was the capital at that time and it was called Hermopolis Magna It was a center of worship 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 temple similar to the Parthenon in Greece. Millions of embalmed ibises and baboons were also discovered in the nearby Tounah Al Gebel (10 km. south). The tomb and chapel of Petosiris, the high priest is also nearby. 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. ... , or , or [1] Thoth (Ramesseum, Luxor) Thoth, a Greek name derived from the Egyptian * (djih-how-tee) (written by Egyptians as ) was considered one of the most important deities of the Egyptian pantheon. ... ... Temple of Hephaestus, an Doric Greek temple in Athens with the original entrance facing east, 449 BC (western face depicted) For other uses, see Temple (disambiguation). ... The Parthenon seen from the hill of the Pnyx to the west. ... 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. ... Type species Simia hamadryas Linnaeus, 1758 Species Papio hamadryas Papio papio Papio anubis Papio cynocephalus Papio ursinus The five baboon species are some of the largest non-hominid members of the primate order; only the Mandrill and the Drill are larger. ... 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. ... Dionysius Exiguus invented Anno Domini years to date Easter. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus (January 24, 76 – July 10, 138), known as Hadrian in English, was a Stoic-Epicurean[] Roman emperor from 117 – 138, and a member of the gens Aelia. ... Antinous or Antinoös (Greek: ) born circa 110 or 111 CE, died 130 CE), was the lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian Bust of Antinous in the Palazzo Altemps museum in Rome // He was born to a Greek family in Bithynion-Claudiopolis, in the Roman province of Bithynia in what... Usermaatre Meryamun Powerful one of Maat and Ra, Beloved of Amun Nomen Ramesse Hekaiunu Ra bore him, Ruler of Heliopolis Died 1151 BC Burial KV11 Major Monuments Medinet Habu Ramesses III (also written Ramses and Rameses) was the second Pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty and is considered to be...

The Byzantine ("Coptic") Period

The Monastery 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. st Helena was a great gal she was really great ... Head of Constantines colossal statue at Musei Capitolini Gaius Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus[1] (February 27, 272–May 22, 337), commonly known as Constantine I, Constantine the Great, or (among Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic[2] Christians) Saint Constantine, was a Roman Emperor, proclaimed Augustus by his troops on... 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. ... This article is about Jesus of Nazareth. ... For other uses, see Saint Joseph (disambiguation). ...

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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.

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 Governorate's Official web page.
• Al Minya University web page.