City in Kafr El Sheikh, Egypt
Fuwwah (
Arabic : فوه ;
Coptic : ⲫⲟⲩⲁ or ⲃⲟⲩⲁ )
[1] is a city in the
Kafr El Sheikh Governorate ,
Egypt .
[2]
Name
The name of the town is attested in
Coptic : ⲫⲟⲩⲁ or ⲃⲟⲩⲁ
[3] and
Ancient Greek : Παυα ,
[4] although it's also claimed that the name is derived from the
Arabic word for
saffron , fuwa .
[5]
History
Medieval Fuwwah grew to become one of the most important cities in
al-Dimashqi's time, when he compared its size to that of
Cairo . Fuwwah's prosperity owed largely to the decline of
Rosetta at that time. Fuwwah was the capital of a province variously called Fuwwah or
Al-Muzahamiyatayn .
[1]
Fuwwah's Christian bishopric remained active through the late thirteenth century, indicating the presence of a large Christian population at the time. Its location on the
Rosetta branch of the
Nile meant that residents could easily travel by
boat , the main mode of transport in the
Nile Delta at the time - overland travel was potentially dangerous, as evidenced by the inability of Yusab, the bishop of Fuwwah, to travel to the
Synod of 1250 due to
Bedouin raids.
[6]
One of the most important monuments in Fuwwah is the
Fez factory established in 1824 by an order from
Muhammed Ali Pasha .
[7]
The
1885 Census of Egypt recorded Fuwwah as a
nahiyah under the district of
Desouk in
Gharbia Governorate ; at that time, the population of the town was 9,902 (4,805 men and 5,097 women).
[8]
References
^
a
b Maspero, Jean; Wiet, Gaston (1919).
Matériaux pour servir à la géographie de l'Égypte . Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale. p. 141.
^
"بوابة الأهرام" . Retrieved 5 July 2013 .
^ Peust, Carsten.
"Die Toponyme vorarabischen Ursprungs im modernen Ägypten" (PDF) . p. 41.
^
"TM Places" . www.trismegistos.org . Retrieved 2022-09-22 .
^ Goitein, Shelomo Dov; Sanders, Paula (1967).
A Mediterranean Society: Daily life . University of California Press. p. 406.
ISBN
0520048695 . Retrieved 22 June 2020 .
^ Tsuji, Asuka (2017). "The Veneration of Anba Hadid and the Nile Delta in the Thirteenth Century". In Gabra, Gawdat; Takla, Hany N. (eds.).
Christianity and Monasticism in Northern Egypt: Beni Suef, Giza, Cairo, and the Nile Delta . Oxford University Press. pp. 189–90.
ISBN
978-1617977800 . Retrieved 24 June 2020 .
^
"الحكومة تتشاجر على مصنع الطرابيش بكفر الشيخ.. والشباب يريد استغلاله (صور)" . www.tahrirnews.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 2018-11-26 .
^ Egypt min. of finance, census dept (1885).
Recensement général de l'Égypte . p. 114. Retrieved 22 June 2020 .
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