Minya Govrenorate

Minya Govrenorate on the cairt o Egyp

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

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

Limestone quarryin.

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

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:

• Abu Qirqas
• El Idwa
• Minya (Men'at Khufu)
• Beni Mazar
• Deir Mawas
• Maghagha
• Mallawi
• Matai
• Samalut

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

• Monastery o Saunt Fana, near Mallawi

Prominent fowk frae Minya Govrenorate

• 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

• 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

• The Egyptian Tourist Authority, - ETA.

Freemit airtins

• The Govrenorate's Offeecial wab page. Archived 2007-08-13 at the Wayback Machine
• Minya University wab page.