Place:Sidfa
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Sidfa صدفا | |
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  Sidfa Location in Egypt | |
| Coordinates: [ ⚑ ] : 26°57′55″N 31°22′51″E / 26.96528°N 31.38083°E | |
| Country |  Egypt |
| Governorate | Asyut |
| Area | |
| • Total | 33.08 sq mi (85.67 km2) |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
| • Total | 200,977 |
| • Density | 6,100/sq mi (2,300/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EST) |
| <hiero>O6-O34:R4:X1*Q3-X1:O49</hiero> |
| style="background: Template:Hiero/pt/bgcolour; border-bottom: 1px solid Template:Hiero/pt/bordercolour; padding: 0.5em" | ḥt sḥtp[2][3] in hieroglyphs |
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Sidfa (Arabic: صدفا, from Ancient Egyptian: ḥw.t-sḥtp.t[4]) is a town in Egypt.[5] It is located near the city of Abnub in the Asyut Governorate. It was known in antiquity by the Greeks as Hisopis.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Ṣidfa (Markaz, Egypt) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". https://www.citypopulation.de/en/egypt/admin/asy%C5%ABt/2507__%E1%B9%A3idfa/.
- ↑ Gauthier, Henri (1927). Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 4. p. 128. https://archive.org/details/Gauthier1927/page/n67.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Brugsch, Heinrich (1879). Dictionnaire géographique de l'ancienne Egypte: contenant par ordre alphabétique la nomenclature comparée des noms propres géographiques qui se rencontrent sur les monuments et dans les papyrus.. J. C. Hinrichs. pp. 735–736. https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/brugsch1879/0755/image.
- ↑ Peust, Carsten. "Die Toponyme vorarabischen Ursprungs im modernen Ägypten". p. 85. http://www.peust.de/ortsnamen_original.pdf.
- ↑ Buhūth Al-Qāhirah Fī Alʾulūm Al-ijtimaʾīyah. American University in Cairo. 1982. https://books.google.com/books?id=AavrAAAAMAAJ.
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