 Abandoned house in Gināḥ | ||
| Gināḥ · جناح | ||
| Governorate | New valley | |
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| Residents | 224 (2006) | |
| height | 71 m | |
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Ginah (also Close, Very close'Arabic:جناح, Ǧināḥ / Ǧanāḥ, „wing“) Is a village in the egyptian Sink el-Chārga, 13 kilometers south of the city el-Chārga. Since it is threatened by sand dunes in the north and west, it had to move south several times in the past.
background
location
The village is located about 3 kilometers west of the trunk road from el-Chārga to Bārīs. It is bordered by mighty sand dunes in the north and west. The village extends roughly from northwest to southeast, with the oldest parts in the northwest.
history
It is conceivable that there have been settlements here or at least in the vicinity since Roman times. In the area of the former source 1 ʿAin ed-Dīb(25 ° 19 ′ 57 ″ N.30 ° 30 ′ 25 ″ E), Arabic:عين الديب, „the wolf spring“, Which is already covered by the masses of sand about 3 kilometers west of the village, are the remains of an ancient Roman settlement with adobe buildings and a cemetery.[1] Locals say that wolves gathered at the spring in the evening to hunt down the villagers' pets. The Briton George Alexander Hoskins (1802–1863) reported on Roman aqueducts in the plain of the Qurn Gināḥ (Arabic:قرن جناح), Which rises about four kilometers east of the village on the eastern side of the trunk road, which probably got their water from the local springs.
The German ethnologist Frank Bliss reported from conversations with the ʿAround, the mayor of the village, Sheikh Aḥmad Naṣr Radwān from the el-ʿUbrūsī family, that the village was founded between 1730 and 1750 by an el-ʿUbrūsī from the Banū Ghāzī tribe, who lived in Sāqīyat el-Ḥamrā '(either in the Libyan Cyrenaica, in southern Tunisia or in Morocco). Even before 1800, other families from the Nile Delta and Upper Egypt moved here. For example, the assāna family came from Upper Egypt and that of the Buḥaīriyīn from the Nile Delta Province el-Buḥeira. The village was built at the trockenAin el-Istighrāb (also Ain Estakherab, Ain Listukhrub, probably Arabic:عين الاستغراب, „Source of surprise") Created. It was the most productive of the valley, and the most productive fields were in its vicinity. Particularly high quality dates also grew here.
The village was first owned by the Italians around 1820 Bernardino Drovetti (1776-1852) mentioned, who stated that after an hour and a half walk from Qaṣr en-Nasīma was attainable. The latter village was an hour and a half from el-Chārga.[2]
Even if the British Hoskins, who visited the valley in 1832, was more interested in the archaeological sites than the village of Gināḥ, he had a lot to say about the village. The alleys of the village were not built over, but open at the top. Only trees provided shade. The alleys were sometimes so narrow that loaded camels could not pass through. 250 people lived in the village, including 50 men. The men were dressed discreetly in self-made galabiyas made of brown wool, with red shoes and tarboots wrapped in turbans. Some of the men looked handsome. In any case, they exuded seriousness and dignity.
British cartographer Hugh John Llewellyn Beadnell (1874–1944), who carried out his investigations in the depression in 1898, named two wonderful springs in the area of the village, the Ain Estakherab (ʿAin el-Istighrāb) and the Ain Magarin. The ʿAin el-Istighrāb is said to be the best and most productive of the Libyan desert, which has been in operation for hundreds, if not thousands of years. It delivered 700-800 gallons (3000 to 3600 liters) of water per minute, which was also conducted via underground aqueducts to the plains at Qurn Gināḥ.
The advancing masses of sand made the villagers to create again and again. Bliss reported that villagers have had to move four times since 1900. The eastern settlement, the el-ʿIzbat esch-Sharqīya, was laid out in 1930 and still forms the village center today. The settlement of several families in the village of Būr Saʿid in 1967 must appear to be a bourgeois prank because this settlement had to be abandoned two years later - due to silting up.
With each resettlement, families repeatedly migrated to el-Chārga or Cairo. In 2006 there were still 224 residents here.[3] In 2011 there were still five to six large families living in the village, two of them "old". They get water from the spring ʿAin en-Naṣīla (Arabic:عين النصيلة).
getting there
The Darf Gināḥ can be reached via the trunk road from el-Chārga to Bārīs. About 13 kilometers south of el-Chārga one branches off to the west 1 25 ° 19 ′ 9 ″ N.30 ° 33 '18 "E and reaches that after just under 3 kilometers 1 Village(25 ° 19 ′ 44 ″ N.30 ° 31 '49 "E).
mobility
The main road in the village is paved. Everything else is well-trodden paths, which due to their narrowness can only partially be passed by car.
Tourist Attractions
The village has little to offer worth seeing. A Walk through the village and its gardens to the north and west are well worth it. Immediately to the west behind the gardens you will find the sand dunes. In the northeast and east are the fields belonging to the village.
The Dome tomb of Sheikh Ḥamida (Arabic:قبة الشيخ حميدة, Qubba al-Sheikh Ḥamida) has already fallen victim to the shifting dunes.
On the sandstone rock east of the road, about four kilometers away and about 161 meters high Qurn Gināḥ (Arabic:قرن جناح), There is the domed tomb of Sheikh Mugheirib (Arabic:قبة الشيخ مغيرب, Qubba el-Sheikh Mughairib).
kitchen
There are restaurants in town el-Chārga.
accommodation
Accommodation is usually in the city el-Chārga elected.
trips
The visit to the village can be combined with the archaeological sites of Qaṣr el-Ghuweiṭa and Qaṣr ez-Zaiyān connect.
literature
- : Visit to the great Oasis of the Libyan desert. London: Longman, 1837, Pp. 68–70 (aqueducts, inhabitants of the village), 89 (number of inhabitants), 133 f. (Description of the village).
- : An Egyptian Oasis: an account of the oasis of Kharga in the Libyan dessert, with special reference to its history, physical geography, and water supply. London: Murray, 1909, P. 71 f. (Sources Ain Estakherab, Ain Magarin), 209 f., 215.
- : Economic and social change in the “New Valley” of Egypt: on the effects of Egyptian regional development policy in the oases of the western desert. Bonn: Political working group for schools, 1989, Contributions to cultural studies; 12th, ISBN 978-3-921876-14-5 , P. 93 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑: The Western Desert of Egypt: an explorer’s handbook. Cairo: The American University at Cairo Press, 2008, ISBN 978-977-416-090-5 , P. 143 f (in English). Vivian called the spring a bear spring.
- ↑: Journal d’un voyage à la vallée de Dakel. In:Cailliaud, Frédéric; Jomard, M. (Ed.): Voyage à l’Oasis de Thèbes et dans les déserts situés à l’Orient et à l’Occident de la Thébaïde fait pendant les années 1815, 1816, 1817 et 1818. Paris: Imprimerie royale, 1821, Pp. 99-105, especially p. 99.
- ↑Population according to the 2006 Egyptian census, accessed June 3, 2014.
