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Najaf, al-
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...The capital of the Najaf Muhafaza (governorate) in central Iraq. One of Iraq's...Arabian border in the southeast. The governorate's population is concentrated near...Muhafaza was formed from areas of the governorate of Qadisiyya in the east and the governorate...
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Shuf
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...nids. The Shuf was made part of the governorate of Mount Lebanon because a sectarian...demanding the division of the Mount Lebanon governorate into two sections to achieve a degree...majority in the northern part of the governorate. By the early 2000s, however, Jumblatt...
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Egypt
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the World
...to Giza in the west. This megalopolis legally encompasses all of the Cairo governorate, most of the Giza governorate, and a small part of the Qalyubia governorate in the north. Near two of the newest suburbs archeologists have found some...
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El Faiyum
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Faiyum , or Al Fayyum , region, coextensive with El Faiyum governorate, N Egypt, W of the Nile River, a depression (entirely...pop. 213,070), located in the southeastern part of the governorate and its capital, is the region's trade, distribution...
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Rumelia
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...administrative region under the rule of a beylerbeyi, the first such governorate of its kind in the Ottoman Empire. It was around this time...beylerbeyi of Rumelia. After 1541, with the establishment of the governorate of Budin and Bosnia, the number of beylerbeyis began to...
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Az Zagazig
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Az Zagazig or Az Zaqaziq , city (1986 pop. 244,354), capital of Sharqiyah governorate, N Egypt, in the Nile River delta. It is a leading cotton market, as well as a trade center for grain and a rail and canal...
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Beni Suef
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Beni Suef or Bani Suwayf , city (1986 pop. 152,476), capital of Beni Suef governorate, N central Egypt, on the Nile River. Situated in an intensely cultivated farming region, Beni Suef has cotton mills and sugar refineries. Alabaster is quarried near the city.
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Nubians
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Dam Lake inundated a large portion of their land, the Egyptian Nubians were relocated to reclaimed land in Komombo in the governorate of Aswan, 50 kilometers north of the city of Aswan. The Sudanese Nubians were resettled at Khashm al-Girba in what was...
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Homs
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...of Egypt, by Timur, and by a succession of bedouin chieftains before becoming a subdivision (pashalik) of the Ottoman governorate of Damascus. The city's inhabitants revolted against the 1831 Egyptian occupation of Syria, prompting Ibrahim Pasha to...
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Monastir
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
MONASTIR seaport on the northeastern coast of tunisia; center of the governorate of the same name. Probably a Punic port before Islam, Monastir became the site of a well-known Arab Islamic ribat (fortified...
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