Maṭāi - Maṭāi

Maṭāi · ‏مطاي‎
GovernorateMinyā
Residents
46.903 (2006)
height
40 m
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Maṭāi

Matai (also Matay, Mattay, Arabic:مطاي‎, Maṭāi) is a medium-sized town in the north of the egyptian Governorates el-Minyā and the administrative seat of the administrative district of the same name. About 47,000 people live in the city.[1] The city itself hardly offers anything worth seeing.

background

location

Maṭāi is about 35 kilometers from el-Minyā away. The city is mainly located on the west bank Ibrāhīmīya Canal.

History and meaning

The history of the city of Maṭāi is obscure. So far, no ancient relics have been found in the urban area.[2]

A Greek city Mataei (Greek: Ματαεί, possibly ancient Egyptian: Jmj-t3y-m-t3-nt) is for the 5th ‒ 7th Century attested. But this settlement is located in the area of ​​the independent village located two kilometers north-northwest of Maṭāi 1 Kōm Maṭāi(28 ° 26 ′ 29 ″ N.30 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E), Arabic:كوم مطاي. In the village were on the streets late antiquity Capitals found, a granite column and late antique ceramics in the village cemetery. Villagers reported about a second column, but that after el-Kufūr eṣ-Ṣūlīya flew. But they don't know anything about this event.[2]

The inhabitants of the city live mainly from agriculture.

The seat of the Maṭāi diocese is located in the city.

getting there

City map of Maṭāi

In the street

Maṭāi is connected to trunk road 2, which, however, goes around the city to the west. If you follow the road on the west side of the Ibrāhīmīya Canal to the north or south of the city, you will enter the city. In the city area there are no Nile bridge. The next bridge is only in the city to the north Benī Mazār.

By train

Maṭāi can be easily reached by train from Cairo or el-Minyā reach out. The 1 Maṭāi Railway Station is located on the eastern side of the Ibrāhīmīya Canal.

mobility

Tourist Attractions

Mosques

  • 1  Sheikh Abu Bakr Mosque (‏مسجد الشيخ أبو بكر‎, Masǧid al-Sheikh Abū Bakr) (28 ° 24 '59 "N.30 ° 47 ′ 1 ″ E)

Churches

  • 2  Church of St. George (‏كنيسة الشهيد العظيم مار جرجس‎, Kanīsat al-Shahīd al-ʿaẓīm Mār Girgis). The church belongs to the seat of the Archbishop of Maṭāi.(28 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ N.30 ° 47 '10 "E)

shop

kitchen

accommodation

There are no hotels in the city. Accommodation options exist in El-Minyā.

health

Practical advice

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trips

Two kilometers north of the city is the village of Kōm Maṭāi. In addition to some remains of late antique architectural fragments, there is the church of St. Markus. The village is 3.5 kilometers north of Maṭāi on the east side of the Ibrāhīmīya Canal el-Kufūr eṣ-Ṣūlīya with the Church of Athanasius the Great.

The village is three kilometers south of Maṭāi el-Manāhra also on the west bank of the Ibrāhīmīya Canal. In the church of ʿAbd el-Masīh el-Manāhrī, the saint of the same name is venerated. The city is located 15 kilometers south of Maṭāi Samālūṭ with another episcopal church and an old mosque.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑Population according to the 2006 Egyptian census, Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, accessed November 7, 2014.
  2. ↑ 2,02,1Gomaà, Farouk et al.: Middle Egypt between Samalūṭ and the Gabal Abū Ṣīr: Contributions to the historical topography of the Pharaonic period. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1991, Supplements to the Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East: Series B, Geisteswissenschaften; 69, ISBN 978-3-88226-467-8 , P. 190.
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