Maḥalla el-Kubrā - Maḥalla el-Kubrā

Mural at the city entrance of el-Maḥalla el-Kubrā
El-Maḥalla el-Kubrā · ‏المحلة الكبرى‎
GovernorateGharbīya
Residents
543.271 (2018)
height
17 m
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Maḥalla el-Kubrā

El-Mahalla el-Kubra (Arabic:المحلة الكبرى‎, al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā), less common Maḥallat Kabīr (Arabic:محلة كبير) Or Maḥallat Maḥrūm (Arabic:محلة محروم), Is a egyptian Industrial city west of the Damiette arm of the Nile in Governorateel-Gharbīya. In the largest city of Nile deltas live about 443,000 inhabitants.[1]

background

With about 443,000 inhabitants (2006)[2] el-Maḥalla el-Kubrā is the largest city in the Nile Delta and seventh largest city in Egypt, and thus also exceeds the population of the governorate capital Ṭanṭā. Just Schubrā el-Cheima at the southern tip of the Nile Delta has more inhabitants. El-Maḥalla el-Kubrā is located some distance west of the Damietta arm of the Nile on the Turʿat el-Milāḥ Canal.

The city is determined by the textile industry. The “Misr spinning and weaving mill” alone employs 27,000 people. All branches of cotton processing are located in the city, from cotton ginning to spinning mills, weaving mills and textile processing. The working conditions of the partially privatized companies are rather poor, so that since 2008 there have been repeated strikes and work stoppages in the city. The political youth movement of April 6th emerged from this labor struggle.

Another branch of the economy is printing.

At the site of today's city, there has been a settlement at least since the late ancient Egyptian period, as individual finds, mostly made of granite, attest.[3] The pillars or blocks of stone probably come from mostly Sebennytos or Bahbīt el-Ḥigāra. During the French Napoléon expedition, members of the expedition found numerous pharaonic stone blocks built into the buildings.[4] In 1828 Nestor l’Hôte counted 120 ancient granite columns in the local mosques.[5]

There is the unconfirmed conjecture of Émile Amélineau (1850–1915) that the city was the Coptic Tischairi could have been.[6]

The current name el-Maḥalla el-Kubrā is a purely Arabic name. For example, the city was founded in 1160 by el-Idrīsī (1100–1166) in his main work Nuzhat al-Muschtāk fi-ichtirāq al-afāq (Journey of the longing to cross the horizons)[7] and 1354 from the traveler Ibn Baṭṭūṭa (1304-1368 / 1377) mentioned.[8] As it is today, the city hardly played an important role. A more extensive description comes from ʿAlī Pascha Mubārak (1823-1893) from the year 1887. He leads in his Kitāb al-Chiṭaṭ at-Taufīqīya al-Ǧadīda (Book of the new Taufīq plans), among other things, that already in his time only Alexandria was larger and 50,000 people lived in the city. Food and clothing were sold in the markets. There were forty mosques in the city, as well as a synagogue and a Coptic church.[9] For the year 1914 the Baedeker gave 33,547 inhabitants.[10] Despite the size of the city, Ṭanṭā became the capital of the governorate as early as the 19th century.

getting there

By train

El-Maḥalla el-Kubrā is on the railway line Cairo - Dumyāṭ. The city lets itself be so Cairo, Ṭanṭā, ez-Zaqāzīq, el-Manṣūra and Dumyāṭ to reach.

In the street

mobility

Tourist Attractions

The city hardly offers anything worth seeing. There is more in the neighboring city Samannūd.

activities

There are two football clubs in the city, Ghazl el-Maḥalla (Arabic:نادي غزل المحلة) And Baladīya el-Maḥalla (Arabic:نادي بلدية المحلة). The former won the Egyptian championship in 1973.

kitchen

accommodation

  • Omar el-Khayyam Hotel, El-Mahalla el-Kubra, 26 July Square (Mīdān Sitta wa Aschrīn Yulyu). Tel.: 20 (0)40 223 4299, (0)40 223 4866, Fax: 20 (0)40 224 0555. The hotel, located about 300 meters north of the train station, is the best hotel in town and has 36 twin rooms.
  • Dream Inn Hotel, El-Mahalla el-Kubra, Gamal Abd el-Nasser St., Manschiyat el Bakry. Tel.: 20 (0)40 212 0951, (0)40 212 0819, (0)40 212 0563, Fax: 20 (0)40 212 0951. The hotel is an unclassified hotel with 32 mostly twin rooms.

trips

The neighboring city rises to the west Samannūd with their testimonies from Pharaonic and Islamic times as well as the Church of St. Virgin and St. Aba Nūb.

literature

  • Kramers, J.H.: al-Mahalla al-Kubrā. In:Bosworth, Clifford Edmund (Ed.): The Encyclopaedia of Islam: Second Edition; Vol. 5: Khe - Mahi. Suffer: Brill, 1986, ISBN 978-90-04-07819-2 , P. 1221.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑Population according to the 2006 Egyptian census, Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, accessed December 17, 2014.
  2. ↑Egypt: Governorates & Major Cities, citypopulation.de, accessed April 19, 2014.
  3. ↑Porter, Bertha; Moss, Rosalind L. B.: Lower and Middle Egypt: (Delta and Cairo to Asyûṭ). In:Topographical bibliography of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, statues, reliefs, and paintings; Vol.4. Oxford: Griffith Inst., Ashmolean Museum, 1934, ISBN 978-0-900416-82-8 , P. 42; PDF.
  4. ↑Description d’Egypte, Volume 5, pages 166–169, volume Antiquites V, panels 30.10–30.14.
  5. ↑Vandier d’Abbadie, Jeanne: Nestor l'Hôte (1804–1842): choix de documents conservés à la Bibliothèque Nationale et aux archives de Musée du Louvre, Leiden: Brill, 1963, (Documenta et monumenta orientis antiqui; 11), p. 16.
  6. ↑Amélineau, É [mile]: La geographie de l’Égypte à l’époque copte. Paris: Impr. National, 1893, P. 262 f.
  7. ↑See also Idrīsī, Muḥammad Ibn-Muḥammad al-: Description de l’Afrique et de l’Espagne, Leiden: Brill, 1866, p. 158.
  8. ↑المحلة الكبرى, Article on Arabic Wikipedia, accessed June 6, 2011.
  9. ↑Mubārak, ʿAlī: al-Ḫiṭaṭ at-taufīqīya al-ǧadīda li-Miṣr wa-l-Qāhira wa-mudunihā wa-bilādihā al-qadīma wa-'š-šahīra; Ǧuzʾ 15, Būlāq: al-Maṭbaʿa al-Kubrā al-Amīrīya, 1305 AH [= 1887], pp. 18-25.
  10. ↑Baedeker, Karl: Egypt and the Sûdân: handbook for travelers. Leipzig: Baedeker, 1914 (7th edition), P. 174.
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