Aswan city is the capital of the province of the most important cities of Aswan and Nubia region of civilization that as long as the southern gateway to Egypt, the city is located on the eastern bank of the River Nile at the first cataract. Arrive in Cairo railway and land routes desert, agricultural and Nile cruise boats and domestic flights. With a population of almost 900 thousand people.
Label:
Aswan was known as «Sono» in the ages of the ancient Egyptians and meaning of the market where the trade center for the convoys coming to and from the Nuba.
Then called in the Ptolemaic era name «O» and called Nubians «Lipa Swan».
It was known also as the country's gold because it was a big treasure or a graveyard for the Nubian kings who lived there for thousands of years. The boundaries of the old Aswan stretch before the migration of Esna eastward to the borders of Sudan in the south and had a population of Alnobin But after the Islamic conquest of Bladalnobh residence where some of the Arab tribes.
Ancient Egyptians:
Ptolemaic era:
Eratosthenes where he refuted the theory of Flatland and made his first account of the perimeter of the globe, taking the Seine center and Alexandria terminal point to calculate the length of the arc between the two points and the angle of sunlight falling on each of the two cities and by whom the Earth's circumference. Eratosthenes relied on the sun passes over the Tropic of Cancer (Elmar almost Aswan) on June 21.
Coptic Egypt:
Came Christianity to Egypt for the many ways he was the first messenger came to Egypt is Bartholomew the Apostle before the year 60 AD and came Bartholomew to Sono "Aswan" in 60 AD, and with Matthew the Apostle and dashed when the Sono to Abyssinia and Brtholmans went from there to Armenia and came in 60 AD Alexandria to St. Mark the apostle and the foundations of the chair of St. Mark and was killed there in 68 AD at the hands of the Pharaohs and the Greeks. Jrōhn saints who were born in Aswan, Anba tourist in vain.
Tourism:
The city of Aswan and the surrounding archaeological and tourist area, where it is increasing the number of foreign tourists, especially from Europe and East Asaa.omen most important tourist landmarks:
Cataract Hotel and Nile Filaak and carrots.
First Nile Falls
Waterfalls and Oraha columns electricity generated from the High Dam
Elephantine Island, an island located off in the city of Aswan is known in Egyptian texts as «Abu," meaning the age of the elephant became the Greek Elephantine where it is believed she was at one time the center of the ivory trade, and includes the island temple of Khnum coupled with a measure of the Nile and the cemetery ram Sacred Gate King Amenhotep II and Trinity Sataat and cursed.
Tomb of the Aga Khan, and is located on a plateau on the west bank of the Nile River off the southern part of the botanical garden, was built by Mohammed Shah Husseini Aga Khan III cemetery luxurious stone, limestone, marble and was buried there in 1959 based on his will and this cemetery inspired by the design of the tombs of the Fatimid Egyptian.
Cataract Hotel heritage.
Nubia Museum The museum opened in November 1997 AD, and participated in the opening ceremony, the heads of a number of friendly countries that participated in the rescue effects of Nubia and displays by more than 5,000 artifacts from the effects of Aalnobh old.
History and significance:
Aswan began importance in the era of the old state where she was representing the southern border of the country. It also was the center of gathering armies in the middle ages kings Maholthm to extend their rule in the south. It also played a crucial role in the fight against the Hyksos. As I obtained the island of Philae «home of the god« Isis »the attention of the Ptolemaic temple and they have to complete the Great. As the Roman temples on the establishment of the pharaonic style to get closer to the Egyptians. Examples of these temples is a small temple on the island of Philae set up by the Emperor Trajan. When Christianity became the official religion of the country in the fifth century AD, most of the temples of the pharaohs turned to churches, was the center of the island of Philae one bishoprics, which led to the spread of Christianity southward toward Nubia in Egypt and Sudan. Since the spread of Islam and Zarōh; were found on many of Kufic inscriptions dating back to the first century. It also flourished Aswan in the Islamic era in the tenth century AD was a way to «Aivab" on the Red Sea coast, where ships sail them to the Hijaz, Yemen, India. Was also an important cultural center in the sixth century and seventh century, and it was by three schools oldest school Aswan , and toothed school, and the school astrocytes in Aswan. has also established the Muhammad Ali's first military school in Egypt in 1837.
Sources :
Biography of the Governor. Aswan Governorate. Check-in date: April 25, 2014.
Secretary-general. Aswan Governorate. Check-in date: April 25, 2014.
Label:
Aswan was known as «Sono» in the ages of the ancient Egyptians and meaning of the market where the trade center for the convoys coming to and from the Nuba.
Then called in the Ptolemaic era name «O» and called Nubians «Lipa Swan».
It was known also as the country's gold because it was a big treasure or a graveyard for the Nubian kings who lived there for thousands of years. The boundaries of the old Aswan stretch before the migration of Esna eastward to the borders of Sudan in the south and had a population of Alnobin But after the Islamic conquest of Bladalnobh residence where some of the Arab tribes.
Ancient Egyptians:
Ptolemaic era:
Eratosthenes where he refuted the theory of Flatland and made his first account of the perimeter of the globe, taking the Seine center and Alexandria terminal point to calculate the length of the arc between the two points and the angle of sunlight falling on each of the two cities and by whom the Earth's circumference. Eratosthenes relied on the sun passes over the Tropic of Cancer (Elmar almost Aswan) on June 21.
Coptic Egypt:
Came Christianity to Egypt for the many ways he was the first messenger came to Egypt is Bartholomew the Apostle before the year 60 AD and came Bartholomew to Sono "Aswan" in 60 AD, and with Matthew the Apostle and dashed when the Sono to Abyssinia and Brtholmans went from there to Armenia and came in 60 AD Alexandria to St. Mark the apostle and the foundations of the chair of St. Mark and was killed there in 68 AD at the hands of the Pharaohs and the Greeks. Jrōhn saints who were born in Aswan, Anba tourist in vain.
Tourism:
The city of Aswan and the surrounding archaeological and tourist area, where it is increasing the number of foreign tourists, especially from Europe and East Asaa.omen most important tourist landmarks:
Cataract Hotel and Nile Filaak and carrots.
First Nile Falls
Waterfalls and Oraha columns electricity generated from the High Dam
Elephantine Island, an island located off in the city of Aswan is known in Egyptian texts as «Abu," meaning the age of the elephant became the Greek Elephantine where it is believed she was at one time the center of the ivory trade, and includes the island temple of Khnum coupled with a measure of the Nile and the cemetery ram Sacred Gate King Amenhotep II and Trinity Sataat and cursed.
Tomb of the Aga Khan, and is located on a plateau on the west bank of the Nile River off the southern part of the botanical garden, was built by Mohammed Shah Husseini Aga Khan III cemetery luxurious stone, limestone, marble and was buried there in 1959 based on his will and this cemetery inspired by the design of the tombs of the Fatimid Egyptian.
Cataract Hotel heritage.
Nubia Museum The museum opened in November 1997 AD, and participated in the opening ceremony, the heads of a number of friendly countries that participated in the rescue effects of Nubia and displays by more than 5,000 artifacts from the effects of Aalnobh old.
History and significance:
Aswan began importance in the era of the old state where she was representing the southern border of the country. It also was the center of gathering armies in the middle ages kings Maholthm to extend their rule in the south. It also played a crucial role in the fight against the Hyksos. As I obtained the island of Philae «home of the god« Isis »the attention of the Ptolemaic temple and they have to complete the Great. As the Roman temples on the establishment of the pharaonic style to get closer to the Egyptians. Examples of these temples is a small temple on the island of Philae set up by the Emperor Trajan. When Christianity became the official religion of the country in the fifth century AD, most of the temples of the pharaohs turned to churches, was the center of the island of Philae one bishoprics, which led to the spread of Christianity southward toward Nubia in Egypt and Sudan. Since the spread of Islam and Zarōh; were found on many of Kufic inscriptions dating back to the first century. It also flourished Aswan in the Islamic era in the tenth century AD was a way to «Aivab" on the Red Sea coast, where ships sail them to the Hijaz, Yemen, India. Was also an important cultural center in the sixth century and seventh century, and it was by three schools oldest school Aswan , and toothed school, and the school astrocytes in Aswan. has also established the Muhammad Ali's first military school in Egypt in 1837.
Sources :
Biography of the Governor. Aswan Governorate. Check-in date: April 25, 2014.
Secretary-general. Aswan Governorate. Check-in date: April 25, 2014.
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