- This article is about the Egyptian city. For the Italian community see Federation of Damanhur
Damanhur (Egyptian: Dmỉ-n-Ḥr. The Federation Of Damanhur, often called simply Damanhur, is a commune Ecovillage, and spiritual community situated in the Piedmont region of northern Egyptian is an Afro-Asiatic language most closely related to the Berber, Semitic, Somali and Beja languages w ("Village of Horus"); Coptic: Ⲧⲙⲉⲛϩⲱⲣ; Arabic: دمنهور) or Hermopolis Mikra (Greek: Ἑρμοῦ πόλις μικρά) is a city in Lower Egypt, and the capital of the Beheira Governorate. Coptic or Coptic Egyptian ( MetRemenkīmi) is the final stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly Lower Egypt is the northern-most section of Egypt. It refers to the fertile Nile Delta region which stretches from the area between El-Aiyat and Zawyet Beheira Governorate ( Arabic: البحيرة, el-Beheirah; 'the Lake' is a coastal governorates in Egypt. It is located 160 km northwest of Cairo, and 70 km E. Cairo () which means "the Vanquisher" or "the Triumphant" is the capital and largest city of Egypt. S. E. of Alexandria, in the middle of the western Nile Delta, at . Alexandria ( Egyptian Arabic: اسكندريه Eskendereyya; Standard Arabic: ar الإسكندرية Al-Iskandariyya; Ἀλεξάνδρεια The Nile Delta ( Arabic: دلتا النيل) is the delta formed in Northern Egypt ( Lower Egypt) where the Nile River spreads
In Ancient Egypt, the city was the capital of Lower Egypt's 7th Nome of A-ment. Ancient Egypt was an Ancient Civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now Lower Egypt is the northern-most section of Egypt. It refers to the fertile Nile Delta region which stretches from the area between El-Aiyat and Zawyet A nome (from Νομός “district” was a subnational administrative division of Ancient Egypt. It stood on the banks of a canal which connected the lake Mareotis with the Canopic or most westerly arm of the Nile. Lake Mariout (بحيرة مريوط (also spelled Maryut or Mariut) is a salt lake, or rather Brackish, with an area of about 250 square km Canopus (also Canobus) was an Ancient Egyptian coastal town located in the Nile Delta. The Nile (النيل, Ancient Egyptian iteru or Ḥ'pī, Coptic piaro or phiaro) is a major north-flowing River (Champollion, L'Egypte, vol. Jean-François Champollion ( 23 December 1790 – 4 March 1832) was a French classical scholar, philologist ii. p. 249). The city was dedicated to the Ancient Egyptian god Horus. Ancient Egypt was an Ancient Civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now In Greek and Roman times, it was called Hermopolis Mikra or Hermopolis Parva, which would also give it an association with Hermes, the Egyptien Thoth. Hermes ( Greek,, ˈhɝmiːz in Greek mythology, is the Olympian god of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them of Shepherds and For other meanings of "Thoth" or of "Djehuti" and similar see Thoth (disambiguation. As Hermopolis, the city attracted the notice of numerous ancient geographers, including Stephanus of Byzantium s. Stephanus of Byzantium, also known as Stephanus Byzantinus ( Greek:; fl v. , Strabo (xvii. Strabo ( Greek: Στράβων 63/64 BC – ca AD 24 was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher. p. 802), Ptolemy (iv. Claudius Ptolemaeus ( Greek: Klaúdios Ptolemaîos; after 83 &ndash ca 5. § 46), and the author of the Antonine Itinerary (p. The Antonine Itinerary (in Latin: Antonini Itinerarium) is a register of the stations and distances along the various roads of the Roman empire, containing 154). It is a Roman Catholic titular see. A titular see in the Roman Catholic Church is a Diocese or Archdiocese that now exists in title only
In 1986 the population of Damanhur was 188,939. The richly-cultivated Beheira province gives rise to mainly agricultural industries which include cotton ginning, potato processing, and date picking. It also has a market for cotton and rice.
Ahmed H. Zewail, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1999, was born in Damanhur in 1946. Ahmed Hassan Zewail (أحمد حسن زويل (born February 26 1946 in Damanhur, Egypt) is an Egyptian American scientist and the The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Nobelpriset i kemi is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of Chemistry.
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- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by William Smith (1856). The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, first published in 1854, was the last of a series of classical dictionaries edited by the English scholar Sir William Smith (1813 &ndash 1893 English Lexicographer, was born at Enfield in 1813 of Nonconformist parents
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- Falling Rain Genomics, Inc. Geographical information on Damanhur, Egypt (English). Retrieved on 2008-03-30. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 240 BC - 1st recorded Perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
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- "Hermopolis Parva". Catholic Encyclopedia. The Catholic Encyclopedia, also referred to today as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language Encyclopedia published by The Encyclopedia (1913). New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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