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| El Buḥeira Governorate محافظة البحيرة | |
| Capital | Damanhūr |
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| Residents | 6.171.613 (2017) |
| surface | 9,826 km² |
| Post Code | 22xxx |
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| prefix | 20 (0)45 |
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| website | www |
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The egyptian Governorate el-Buheira (Arabic:محافظة البحيرة, Muḥāfaẓat al-Buḥaira) is in the northwest Nile Delta. It borders on that in the north Mediterranean Sea, in the east to the governorates Kafr esch-Sheikh, el-Gharbīya and el-Minūfīya - the western branch of the Nile forms the natural border - in the south to the governorate el-Gīza and in the west to the governorate Matruh and Alexandria. The governorate extends into the Western desert and also includes that Wadi en Natrun. The administrative center is Damanhūr.
places
- 1 Damanhūr - Capital of the governorate.
- 2 Rashid (Rosetta) and 3 Rashid Castle - Historic city center and fortress.
- 4 Kafr ed-Dawwār (Kafr ed-Dauwār) - industrial city with textile industry, about 30 kilometers east of Alexandria.
Other goals
- 1 Wādī en-Naṭrūn - Valley with four famous monasteries.
- 2 Atrīs(30 ° 20 ′ 8 ″ N.30 ° 53 ′ 3 ″ E), Arabic:أتريس- village with 10,586 inhabitants (2006),[1] in which there are monasteries. Settlements of the monasteries from Wādī en-Naṭrūn have been known in this village since the 5th century. The 3 Church of St. Macarius, Branch of Monastery of St. Macarius, has three hotspots, from the north the one for St. Virgin who was dedicated to St. Macarius and the one for St. George. On the icons on the wooden screen, which dates from 1865, are next to the named saints, among other things. the St. Damyana and the 40 virgins as well as the three Makarii are shown. The Church of St. Virgin, Branch of Syrian monastery, was built around 1830. Your three hot ones are from the north John the Baptist, St. Virgin and St. Dedicated to Georg. The screen wall was made in 1871 and has a.o. an icon of St. Macarius. The branches include guest houses and monk cells.[2] The branch of the Monastery of St. Bishoi was after Kafr Dāud relocated.
- 4 Merimda Benī Salāma - Archaeological site.
- 5 Abū el-Maṭāmīr(30 ° 54 '37 "N.30 ° 10 ′ 24 ″ E), Arabic:أبو المطامير) - district town with 44,511 inhabitants (2006) and a church for St. Virgin. The is located in the vineyards on the en Nubareiya Canal six kilometers south of the city 6 Gianaclis Palace, Arabic:قصر جناكليس, Qaṣr Ǧanāklīs, named after the Greek businessman Nicola Biyarkos, better known in Egypt as Gianaclis. The palace was built in 1948 by an Italian architect. The six-storey rooms have 366 windows. In 1956 the palace became the presidential property and has been one of Egypt's Islamic heritage sites since 2016.
- 7 Kōm Giʿeif, the former Naukratis - Archaeological site.
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The governorate national day is celebrated on September 19. On September 19, 1807 was at Rashid repulsed the so-called Fraser campaign, with which the British Royal Navy under General Alexander Mackenzie Fraser tried to Alexandria to take and to establish Great Britain as the new occupying power after the Napoleonic troops had previously had to leave the country.
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- ↑Population according to the 2006 Egyptian census, Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, accessed February 1, 2015.
- ↑: Christian Egypt, ancient and modern. Cairo: American University at Cairo Press, 1977 (2nd edition), ISBN 978-977-201-496-5 , P. 265 f.
