Minya Govrenorate
Minya Govrenorate (Arabic: محافظة المنيا Muḥāfaẓat al Minyā, Egyptian Arabic: [moˈħɑfzˤet elˈmenjæ]) is ane o the govrenorates o Upper Egyp. The name oreeginates frae the chief ceety o the govrenorate, oreeginally kent in Sahidic Coptic as Tmoone (ⲧⲙⲟⲟⲛⲉ) an in Bohairic as Thmonē (ⲑⲙⲟⲛⲏ), meanin “the residence”, in reference tae a monastery umwhile in the aurie. The name mey an aa oreeginate frae the ceety's name in Egyptian Men'at Khufu.
Naitional Holiday
[eedit | eedit soorce]The naitional holiday o the Minya govrenorate is on 18 Mairch. It commemorates those who wur executit bi the Breetish at Deir Mawas on 18 Mairch 1919.
Agricultur an industry
[eedit | eedit soorce]Minya Govrenorate is an important agricultural an industrial region. Amang its principal crops are sugar-cane, cotton, beans, soya beans, garlic, ingans, vegetables o various sorts, tomatoes, potatoes, watermelons, an grapes. Amang the leadin local industries are fuid processin (especially sugar an the dryin an grindin o ingans), spinnin an weavin o cotton, perfumes, oils an fats, cement-makin, quarryin (especially limestone), an brick-makin.
Location an Settin
[eedit | eedit soorce]The caipital o Minya govrenorate is the ceety o Minya. The govrenorate is ane o the maist heichlie populatit govrenorates o Upper Egyp. It contains nine ceeties; 3,375 veelages; an 10,875 hamlets, athin the follaein nine boroughs, frae north tae sooth:
Ither important sites in the Minya Governorate include:
- Akhetaten (Amarna)
- Dehenet (Akoris or Tihna el-Gebel)
- Ansena (Antinopolis or Sheikh Ibada)
- Beni Hasan
- Deir el-Bersha
- el-Sheikh Sa'id
- Fraser Tombs
- Hatnub
- Hebenu (Kom el-Ahmar)
- Herwer (Hur)
- Khmun (Hermopolis Magna or el-Ashmunein)
- Per Medjed (Oxyrhynchus or el-Bahnasa)
- Sharuna (el-Kom el-Ahmar Sawaris)
- Speos Artemidos (Istabl Antar)
- Tuna el-Gebel
- Zawyet el-Maiyitin
Monasteries in the Minya Govrenorate
[eedit | eedit soorce]Prominent fowk frae Minya Govrenorate
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Abdel Hakim Amer, military general
- Akhenaten, Pharaoh o the Aichteent dynasty
- Hakim, folkloric sangster
- Hoda Shaarawi, female activist
- Khufu, seicont Pharaoh o the Fowert dynasty
- Louis Awad, writer an intellectual
- Maria al-Qibtiyya, wife o Muhammad
- Sanaa Gamil, actress
- Suzanne Mubarak, the first lady o Egyp
- Taha Hussein, writer an intellectual
Statistics
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Tot aurie: 32,279 km².
- Percentage tae tot aurie o Egyp: 3.2%.
- Population: aroond 4.2 million
- Population density: 115 fowk/km²
- Rural population:
- Percentage tae the whole population o Egyp: 5.1%
- Population growthe rate:
- Minya Govrenorate admeenistrative diveesions: 9 localities, 57 local admeenistrative units, 346 sma veelages, an 1429 tiny veelages.
Sources
[eedit | eedit soorce]- The Egyptian Tourist Authority, - ETA.
Freemit airtins
[eedit | eedit soorce]- The Govrenorate's Offeecial wab page. Archived 2007-08-13 at the Wayback Machine
- Minya University wab page.[deid airtin]
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