Damanhur

Damanhur ( , Egyptian: Dmỉ-n-Ḥr.w, Coptic: , ) is a ceity in Lawer Egyp, an the caipital o the Beheira Govrenorate. It is located 70 km (43 mi) sootheast o Cairo, an 70 km (43 mi) northwast o Alexandria, in the middle o the wastren Nile Delta.

History
In Auncient Egyp, the ceity wis the caipital o Lawer Egyp's 7t Nome o A-ment. It stuid on the banks o a canal which connectit the lake Mareotis wi the Canopic or maist wasterly airm o the Nile. (Champollion, L'Egypte, vol. ii. p. 249). The ceity wis dedicatit tae the Auncient Egyptian god Horus. In Greek an Roman times, it wis cried Hermopolis Mikra or Hermopolis Parva, which wad give it an association wi Hermes, the Egyptian Thoth. As Hermopolis, the ceity attractit the notice o numerous auncient geographers, includin Stephanus o Byzantium s. v., Strabo (xvii. p. 802), Ptolemy (iv. 5. § 46), an the author o the Antonine Itinerary (p. 154). It is a Roman Catholic titular see.

In 1986, the population o Damanhur wis 188,939. The richly-cultivatit Beheira province gives rise tae mainly agricultural industries which include cotton ginnin, potato processin, an date pickin. It haes a mercat for cotton an rice an aw. 

Ahmed H. Zewail, who wan the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1999, wis born in Damanhur in 1946.

Etymology
Damanhur (or Damanhour) wis kent in the auncient Egyptian scripts bi the name "Di Men Hor", which means the ceity o god Hor or Horus, on the grunds that it wis a center for the worship o this god. It wis kent bi ither names an aw: in the Egyptian texts kent as "Behdet", in the Greek texts kent as the "Hermopolis Prva" which means the ceity Hermes Minor, cried "Obollenoboles" in regards tae the Greek god Apollo, an then they cried it "Tel Ballamon". Later, the Egyptians returned the oreeginal auld name, an pronoonce it "Temenhor", an efter the Islamic conquest they misrepresentit the name tae its name in Arabic which is nou kent as "Damanhur".

Climate
Being locatit close tae the Nile Delta that gives Damanhur a Mediterranean climate. The ceity gets average precipitation durin winter, an rare rain durin ither saisons. Hail an frost are no unkent specifically durin winter.

Tomb o Yaakov Abuhatzeira
The toun contains the tomb o Yaakov Abuhatzeira (1805–1880) a Moroccan Rabbi who dee'd here in 1880 while on a pilgrimage tae the Land o Israel. The steid is visitit each year bi hunders o devotees.Barak, David. Mubarak to allow Jewish pilgrims to visit famous rabbi's tomb, Haaretz, (December 30, 2009). The tomb is an offeecial antiquity steid protectit bi the govrenment o Egyp. Some Egyptians hae protestit against permittin Jews tae enter Egyp tae mak the annual pilgrimage tae Rabbi Abuhatzeira's tomb.

Cultural references
Damanhur is the fictional hame o the character Nebamon in the beuk Rise of the Golden Cobra, bi Henry T. Aubin. 

Damanhur name is uised bi the airtist eco-veelage in northren Italy.

References

Freemit airtins

http://www.damanhour.5u.com   Arabic script
http://www.damanhour.5u.com/en.htm   Inglis script
http://www.saeednet.4t.com      live cam frae Damanhour

Category:Populatit places in Beheira Govrenorate
Category:Govrenorate caipitals in Egyp
Category:Nile River Delta
Category:Auncient Greek steids in Egyp
Category:Roman steids in Egyp
Category:Titular sees in Africae
Category:Jewish pilgrimage steids