Saturday, October 25, 2014

Luxor

 

Luxor  nicknamed percent in the door or Sun City, formerly known as the name of good, is the capital of Egypt in the Pharaonic era, is located on the banks of the Nile River, which divides into two mainland eastern and western mainland, is the capital of the province of Luxor in southern Egypt, located between latitudes 25-36 north 0.32 to 33 in the east, and away from the Egyptian capital, Cairo, about 670 km, and north of the city of Aswan, about 220 km, and the southern city of Qena, about 56 km, and the south-west of the city of Hurghada, about 280 km. It is bordered to the north Qous center and Qena, and from the south of Edfu center and the province of Aswan, and the east side of the Red Sea province, to the west of Armant center and the province of New Valley, the nearest sea ports of the city is the port of Safaga, and the nearest airports to it is the Luxor International Airport.
Of the Luxor area of ​​about 416 square kilometers, and the space inhabited is 208 square kilometers, and a population of approximately 487 896 people, according to the census of 2010, the divided city of Luxor administratively into five Heachat are legitimate Awwamiyya, ancient Karnak, the new Karnak, Qurna, facility-Amari, and six cities affiliates and villages are El Bayadeya, lentoids nautical, lentoids tribal, Tod, Albgdadaa, Habil, is said to be shorter, with approximately one-third of the effects of the world, as it includes many of the monuments of Pharaonic old divided on the eastern and western Albrain of the city, featuring the mainland east of Luxor Temple, Temple of Karnak, and rams through the link between the two temples, and the Luxor Museum, and the western mainland fitted and the Valley of the Kings, the Temple of Deir el-Bahari, and the Valley of the Queens, Deir el-Medina, and the Temple of the Ramesseum, and a statue of Memnon.
 
Because of the founding of the city of Thebes to the Fourth Dynasty around 2575 BC, and even the Middle Kingdom were not good more than just a collection of huts Join contiguous, though, so they were used as a cemetery for the burial of the dead, he was buried where governors since the era of the old state and then, and then became the city of Thebes later the capital of Egypt in the eleventh Egyptian Dynasty at the hands of Pharaoh first Mentuhotep, who succeeded in unifying the country again after the chaos transmitting in Egypt in the First Intermediate Period, and has been a good city, capital of the Egyptian state until the fall of the rule Pharaohs and family XXXI at the hands of the Persians 332 BC
 

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