Menouf
Menouf (from) is a city in Egypt located in the Nile Delta. It has an area of 18.76 square kilometers. The city gave its name to the Monufia Governorate where it is located and was the capital of the governorate until 1826.
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Overview
Overview
One of the several continually inhabited ancient Egyptian cities in the governorate.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Menouf • Native Name — منوف ⲡⲁⲛⲟⲩϥ • Settlement Type — City • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — Egypt • Subdivision Type1 — Governorate • Subdivision Name1 — Monufia • Unit Pref — Metric • Area Total Km2 — 17.40 • Elevation M — 20 • Population Total — 125,707 • Population As Of — 2021 • Population Density Km2 — auto • Timezone1 — EET • Utc Offset1 — +2 • Timezone1 Dst — EEST • Utc Offset1 Dst — +3
Name
Name
Menouf was formerly called Minuf al-Ulyah, which comes from (with variants ⲉⲛⲟⲩϥⲓ ⲣⲏⲥ and ⲁⲛⲟⲩϥⲉ). "The upper" in this case also means "southern", i.e. located upriver in relation to the Nile's flow (see Upper Egypt), which was used to differentiate it from Minuf as-Sufli, modern Mahallat Menouf. The Coptic name Panouf in turn is derived from. The city's Greek name Onouphis Ano comes from the Egyptian name as well.
History
History
Panouf was a bishopric by the middle of the fourth century as evidenced by the attendance of Bishop Adelphis of Onouphis at a synod in Alexandria in 362. During the Heraclean revolt the city was an important center of the Blues, loyal to the emperor Phocas. General Bonasus gave battle to the rebels east of Panouf and defeated them, but the city was captured by Nicetas in a short while. By the 19th century the city went into decline. It had no gardens, its streets were narrow and dirty, and its houses small and badly constructed. The people drank the Nile water.
Notable people
Notable people
• Abraham of Egypt • Pope Joseph I of Alexandria
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Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
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- 1.Minūf (Kism (fully urban), Egypt) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location. citypopulation.de.
- 2.About Menouf. monofeya.gov.
- 3.الصفحة الرئيسية - منوف.
- 4.Stewart, Randall. Minuf Al-'Ulyah. Claremont Colleges Digital Library.
- 5.Peust, Carsten. Die Toponyme vorarabischen Ursprungs im modernen Ägypten. 65.
- 6.https://imperium.ahlfeldt.se/places/28498.html
- 7.Howard-Johnston, James. The Last Great War of Antiquity. Oxford University Press. 38–58. 2021. 978-0-19-883019-1.
- 8.Mitchell, John Kearsley. On the Cryptogamous Origin of Malarious and Epidemic Fevers. Lea and Blanchard. 1849.
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