 El-Maks el-Qiblī settlement | ||
| El-Maks el-Qiblī · المكس القبلي | ||
| Governorate | New valley | |
|---|---|---|
| Residents | 1.361 (2006) | |
| height | 74 m | |
no tourist info on Wikidata:  | ||
| location | ||
| ||
El-Maks el-Qibli (Arabic:المكس القبلي, al-Maks al-Qiblī, „the southern customs post“) Is a village with around 1,400 inhabitants[1] in the south of the valley el-Chārga and was one of six customs stations on the pass roads leading to the valley. The small settlement is about 10 kilometers south of Bārīs and 10 kilometers west of Dūsch. The settlement is 3 kilometers north 1 el-Maks el-Baḥrī(24 ° 35 ′ 7 ″ N.30 ° 35 '26 "E), Arabic:المكس البحري, al-Maks al-Baḥrī, „the northern customs post“.
background
El-Maks el-Qiblī is a settlement of a few homesteads and in the past was the southernmost of the customs posts. It was due to both the Naqb Dūsch (shower pass) and the Darb el-Arbaʿīn.
The extension of the settlement is about 250 meters in north-south direction and about 150 meters in east-west direction. The residents of the settlement get their water from several wells. The population of about 100 people was taken from the British George Alexander Hoskins (1802–1863) collected in 1832.
According to tradition, el-Maks el-Qiblī is one of the oldest settlements in the south of the el-Chārga depression. Like the German ethnologist Frank Bliss reported that el-Maks el-Qiblī was probably settled since at least the middle of the 16th century and is perhaps older than Bārīs. The founders include the Chalīl family and the sons of the family founder Sarḥān. Members of the Sarḥān family also settled in el-Maks el-Baḥrī and later in Bārīs around 1600.
Originally the houses stood in the middle of the gardens and directly on the outer walls of the farms. After the Sudan After the Mahdi uprising (1881–1899), the community was grouped around the so-called Tower of the Dervishes.
The first European to visit this settlement could be the English traveler William George Browne (1768–1813) who visited the city of el-Chārga and the villages of Būlāq, Bārīs and Maks on his journey along the Darb el-Arbaʿīn in June 1793. Between June 13th and 15th he passed Mughess, the last village of the oasis.[2] However, he gave no information about the ancient sites.
As Hoskins reported, el-Maks el-Qiblī was the southernmost village of the El-Chārga depression in its day - today it is Qaṣr Bārīs. The local spring provided little water, but it was more digestible than that in the north of the valley. Thus the area that could be cultivated was only small and could hardly feed any more people. Hoskins was pleasantly surprised by the population: the inhabitants of the local villages, Dūsch and Bārīs included, are stronger and healthier than those in the city el-Chārga. They were also cleaner and more polite than in other Arab villages. The local farmers had to work harder for their livelihood. Hoskins could not report anything about the Dervish Tower because it did not yet exist.
British cartographer Hugh John Llewellyn Beadnell (1874–1944) reported from his visit to el-Maks el-Qiblī in 1898 only that there were doum and date palms, that the usable land areas were only small and that they were irrigated from isolated wells.[3]
A brief description of the tower of the dervishes was presented by Jean Gascou in 1978. In the vicinity of the settlement Gascou also found fragments of Roman or Byzantine wine amphorae and the remains of an oven.
The northern settlement of el-Maks el-Baḥrī has existed since at least the 17th century, even if the events that can still be dated do not date back to 1800. The families of the Sāfī and Shindāwī as well as parts of the Ḥasnīya clan lived here.
getting there
The village is easy to get to. It is about 10 kilometers south of Bārīs on the east side of trunk road 25. You can get to el-Maks el-Qiblī by buses and minibuses. Most buses end in Bārīs, sometimes they go on. In Bārīs there are minibuses that go to el-Maks el-Qiblī.
mobility
The slopes in 2 Village(24 ° 33 ′ 19 ″ N.30 ° 36 ′ 40 ″ E) can be accessed by taxi or car. Due to the small size of the village, it can be explored on foot.
Tourist Attractions
In the south of the village is the fortress-like 1 Tower of the Dervishes(24 ° 33 '18 "N.30 ° 36 '49 "E.), Arabic:طابية الدراويش, Ṭābīya ad-Darāwish. This two-storey tower with an annex to the north was built around 1893 during the British occupation of Egypt to prevent incursions from members of the Mahdi's army Sudan coming to be able to fend off in the depression. There were comparable buildings in the past in various places in the southern part of the valley near Brunnen.
The tower is now inhabited by a local family, who also ensure that it is preserved. Viewing is still possible.
kitchen
In Bārīs there are grocery stores and cafes right on the trunk road.
accommodation
Accommodation is usually in the city el-Chārga elected. There is also a seasonally used tent camp northwest of Qaṣr Dūsch.
trips
Visiting the settlement can be combined with a visit to Qaṣr Dūsch, ʿAin Manāwir and Qaṣr Bārīs connect.
literature
- : Visit to the great Oasis of the Libyan desert. London: Longman, 1837, Pp. 148-151.
- : Deux voyages archéologiques dans l’oasis de Khargeh. In:Bulletin de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale (BIFAO), ISSN0255-0962, Vol.79 (1979), Pp. 1-20, panels I-VI, especially p. 10, panel III.B.
- : 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. 95 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑Population according to the 2006 Egyptian census, accessed June 3, 2014.
- ↑: Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, from the year 1792 to 1798. London: Candell and Davies, Longman and Rees, 1799, P. 186.
- ↑: 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. 84.
