Ismant - Ismant

Ismant Mosque
Ismant · ‏إسمنت‎
GovernorateNew valley
Residents
3.231 (2006)
height
111 m
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Ismant

Ismant (also Ismint, Asmant, Esment, Smint, Arabic:إسمنت‎, Ismant) is a village in the east of the egyptian Sink ed-Dāchla. It offers little to see but can be used as a starting point for a visit to Ismant el-Charab serve.

background

The village Ismant is located on the north side of the trunk road that Courage With Balāṭ connects. It is one of the easternmost villages in the western sub-basin of ed-Dāchla and about 11 kilometers east of Mūṭ.

The name variant Ismant is relatively young. The Egyptian historian Ibn Duqmāq (1349-1407), who named the place for the first time in his list of 24 villages in the valley, still used the old name Smint (Arabic:سمنت). He named the place twice, that old smint (Smint el-Qadīma) and Smint el-Chuṭā (the wrong smint). The former is certainly the ancient settlement Ismant el-Charab, the second today's village. Rice was grown in the vicinity of both villages.[1] The French archaeologist Guy Wagner believes that the place name has been in the form since Coptic times Smne (Ⲥⲙⲛⲉ) or Smint (Ⲥⲙⲛⲧ) was used.[2]

The Traveler the 19th century took little notice of the village. John Gardner Wikinson (1797–1875), who visited the depression in 1825, reported at least 250 male residents.[3] For the year 1897 the British cartographer gave Hugh John Llewellyn Beadnell (1874–1944) had 1,037 inhabitants.[4]

The Briton William Joseph Harding King (1869–1933), who visited Dachla in 1912, described his reception at the local one ʿAround (Mayor) and a small mosque of the Sanūsī brotherhood, one Zāwiyathat was built from adobe bricks.[5]

In 2006, Ismant had a population of 3,231.[6]

getting there

The village is relatively easy to get to by car, taxi or public transport. It is located directly on the trunk road after el-Chārga.

mobility

The paths in the village are not asphalted, just trampled. In the area of ​​the old village center there are rubble hills on the paths.

Tourist Attractions

Alley in the old village center of Ismant

There are still remnants of the old village center received, but they are increasingly decaying. The mostly two-story houses were built from adobe bricks. The streets were occasionally built over. The old village center was surrounded by a wall.

The religious center of the village is the new mosque with its minaret, the lower part of which is octagonal and the upper part round.

accommodation

Accommodation is available e.g. B. in courage and in Qasr ed-Dachla.

trips

About 5 kilometers east of the village across the street is the archaeological site of Ismant el-Charab.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑Ibn-Duqmāq, Ibrāhīm Ibn-Muḥammad: Kitāb al-Intiṣār li-wāsiṭat ʿiqd al-amṣār; al-Guzʿ 5. Būlāq: al-Maṭbaʿa al-Kubrā al-Amīrīya, 1310 AH [1893], p. 11 below – 12, in particular p. 12, lines 8 f.
  2. ↑Wagner, Guy: Les oasis d'Égypte à l’époque grecque, romaine et byzantine d'après les documents grecs, Le Caire: Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, 1987, (Bibliothèque d’étude; 100), p. 192, footnote 4.
  3. ↑Wilkinson, John Gardner: Modern Egypt and Thebes: being a description of Egypt; including the information required for travelers in that country; Vol.2. London: Murray, 1843, P. 365.
  4. ↑Beadnell, Hugh John Llewellyn: Dakhla Oasis. Its topography and geology, Cairo, 1901, (Egyptian Geological Survey Report; 1899.4).
  5. ↑Harding-King, William Joseph: Mysteries of the Libyan Desert. London: Seeley, 1925, ISBN 978-1850779575 , Pp. 37-41.
  6. ↑Population according to the 2006 Egyptian census, accessed June 3, 2014.
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