Balyanā - Balyanā

El-Balyanā · ‏البلينا‎
GovernorateSōhāg
Residents
46.997 (2006)
height
75 m
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Balyanā

El-Balyana (also el-Bulyana, el-Belliana, Arabic:البلينا‎, al-Balyanā) is a egyptian City in GovernorateSōhāg directly on the west bank of the Nile. It is about 50 kilometers southeast of Sōhāg away. In el-Balyanā there is also a landing stage for Nile cruise ships, from which the travelers to the temples of Abydos travel on.

background

El-Balyanā, the Coptic Ⲧⲡⲟⲩⲣⲁⲛⲏ, Tpouranē, is in Coptic Synaxarion (Martyrology) for the 7th Barmudah, the day of remembrance for St. Macrobius, the son of Abū Mūsā (Moses the Black), the abbot of the monastery of Balyanā, mentioned. Abū el-Makārim (Late 12th, early 13th century) in tradition Abū Ṣāliḥ the Armenian mentions the city indirectly by saying that Abū Mūsā Monastery describes as being west of el-Balyanā and mentions that Moses the Black was born in el-Balyanā.[1] Also the Arab historian el-Maqrīzī (1364–1442) knew that Moses the Black was born in el-Balyanā.

In 1885 the city had 3,854 inhabitants, in 2006 47,000 inhabitants lived here.[2]

El-Balyanā is the bishopric.

getting there

By train

City map of el-Balyanā

El-Balyanā is on the railway line from Cairo to Aswan and is off with regional trains and some long-distance trains Sōhāg and Luxor reachable. The 1 Balyanā Railway Station(26 ° 14 '4 "N.31 ° 59 ′ 50 ″ E) is located in the city center.

By bus

There's one in the west of the city 2 Microbus station(26 ° 13 '57 "N.31 ° 59 ′ 45 ″ E) according to Sōhāg.

In the street

El-Balyanā is on a trunk road leading to Sōhāg (50 kilometers), Qinā (90 kilometers) and Luxor (150 kilometers) leads.

By boat

El-Balyanā has a dock for Nile cruise ships.

mobility

Tourist Attractions

Mosques

  • 2  Mosque of ʿAmmār ibn Yāsir (‏مسجد عمار بن ياسر‎, Masǧid ʿAmmār bin Yāsir) (26 ° 14 '10 "N.32 ° 0 ′ 17 ″ E)

Churches

shop

kitchen

accommodation

Currently, accommodation is chosen in Sōhāg or Luxor. In the future there will also be hotels in el-Balyanā.

health

  • 1  Central Hospital (‏مستشفى البلينا المركزي‎, Mustashfā al-Balyanā al-Markazī) (26 ° 14 '2 "N.31 ° 59 ′ 48 ″ E)

trips

The onward journey to Abydos and to the monastery Abū Mūsā Monastery is possible with a taxi from the train station.

literature

  • Amélineau, É [mile]: La geographie de l’Égypte à l’époque copte. Paris: Impr. National, 1893, P. 93 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑[Abū al-Makārim]; Evetts, B [asil] T [homas] A [lfred] (ed., Transl.); Butler, Alfred J [oshua]: The churches and monasteries of Egypt and some neighboring countries attributed to Abû Sâliḥ, the Armenian. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895, P. 231 f., Fol. 81.a, p. 318 (No. 59 in the monastery list of el-Maqrīzī). Various reprints, e.g. B. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-9715986-7-6 .
  2. ↑Population according to the 2006 Egyptian census, Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, accessed December 16, 2014.
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