Tahta
Tahta
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| ḥt tj(t)[3] in hieroglyphs | |||||
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| Era: 3rd Intermediate Period (1069–664 BC) | |||||
Tahta (
Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, who was born in Tahta in 1801, and who wrote and translated many books following his trip to Paris in 1826 as the imam and chaplain for the first group of Egyptians whom Mehmet Ali Pasha
(Muhammad Ali Pasha) sent to study in western Europe.
Villages
Villages within the jurisdiction of Tahta include:
- Bani Harb (Egyptian Arabic: بنى حرب)
- Nazlit El Qady (Egyptian Arabic: نزلة القاضى)
- Banga (Egyptian Arabic: بنجا)
- El Sawalim (Egyptian Arabic: السوالم)
- Shattoura (Egyptian Arabic: شطوره)
- El Soffeha (Egyptian Arabic: الصفيحه)
- El Kom El Asfar (Egyptian Arabic: الكوم الأصفر)
- Zein Eld Din (Egyptian Arabic: زين الدين)
- Nazlit Ali (Egyptian Arabic: نزلة على)
- Elsawamaa Gharb (Egyptian Arabic: الصوامعه غرب)
- Banhao (Egyptian Arabic: بنهو)
- Egyptian Arabic: بنى عمار)
- Enibis (Egyptian Arabic: عنيبس)
Notable people
- Rifa'a el-Tahtawi
- Naguib Sawiris
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Ṭahṭā (Kism (urban and rural parts), Egypt) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
- ^ a b Wallis Budge, E. A. (1920). An Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary: with an index of English words, king list and geological list with indexes, list of hieroglyphic characters, coptic and semitic alphabets, etc. Vol II. John Murray. p. 1019.
- ^ a b Gauthier, Henri (1927). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol .4. p. 141. Gauthier refers to Daressy's identification.
- ISBN 9781789251593. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
- ^ "The population of the governorates of Egypt according to census results". City Population.
- OCLC 1081303684.
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