Damanhur
Coordinates: 31 ° 2 ′ N , 30 ° 28 ′ E
Damanhur ( Egyptian Dmỉ-n-Ḥr.w "Village of Horus"; Coptic Ⲧⲙⲉⲛ ϩ ⲱⲣ; Arabic دمنهور, DMG Damanhūr ) or Hermopolis Mikra ( ancient Greek Ἑρμοῦ πόλις μικρά ) is a city in Lower Egypt , and the capital of the al-Buhaira governorate . It is located 160 km northwest of Cairo and 70 km east-southeast of Alexandria , in the middle of the western Nile Delta .
history
In ancient Egypt , the city was temporarily - in addition Metelis - capital of the seventh Gaus ( Wa-em-Huu-ges-Imenti or A-ment, Greek Menelaites or Metelites, also called "Western Harpunengau") of Lower Egypt . It lay on the slope of a canal that connected Lake Mareotis with Canopus, or the westernmost arm of the Nile. The city was dedicated to the ancient Egyptian god Horus . In Greek and Roman times it was called Hermopolis Mikra or Hermopolis Parva, based on the Roman god Hermes , who corresponds to the Egyptian god Thoth . As Hermopolis, the city attracted the attention of numerous ancient geographers , including Stephen of Byzantium , Strabo , Ptolemy, and the author of the Itinerarium Antonini . Hermopolis is a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church .
In 2008 the population was 247,074 (1986: 188,939).
Economy and Infrastructure
In the agricultural province of al-Buhaira a predominantly agricultural industry was able to establish itself, e.g. B. the production of egrenier machines for processing cotton, of machines for potato processing and date cultivation. There is also a cotton and rice market.
sons and daughters of the town
- Abdullah Ali El-Erian (1920–1981), lawyer and diplomat
- Fouad Ibrahim (* 1938), geographer
- Ahmed H. Zewail (1946–2016), 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Mohamed Nagy (* 1984), soccer player
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Champollion: L'Égypte , vol. ii. P. 249.
- ^ Geographika, xvii. p. 802.
- ^ Geographike Hyphegesis , iv. 5. § 46.
- ^ Itinerarium Antonini, p. 154.
source
This article was translated from the "Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition", a publication now in the public domain, and contains text from the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1856) by William Smith, which is also in the public domain .