Saryaqos, Egypt
Saryaqos (Egyptian Arabic: سرياقوس pronounced [sɑrjɑːʔoːs]) is a village in the khanka markaz located in the Qalyubiyya Governorate in Egypt, in the northern part of the Cairo metropolitan area, at the start of the Nile Delta. in 2006, it had a population of 22,805. Overview. Saryaqos is the village that is Northern agricultural frontier of Cairo and this make it having a cultural influence that can be observed all over Egypt, as there are some traditional foods and drinks bearing the name of Saryaqos, such as (Saryaqosy Coffee) (Egyptian Arabic: قهوة سرياقوسي) ,which is a traditional Egyptian way  of making coffee, and some other things that do not necessarily come from that village, but they take a common name for things coming from the northern Egyptian countryside in general. Politics. Muhammed Abd El-Wahid is representing Saryaqos as part of the Khanka markaz in the Egyptian Parliament in the 2020 elections, And it is now under the rule of the governor of Qalyubia, Abdul Hamid Al-Hajjan. History. Ancient Egypt. Saryaqos was nothing but a small village and an agricultural area in Ancient Egypt and it was in the southern part of the tenth nome of ancient Lower  Egypt KA Wr (Egyptian: 𓈪) 32.1 km in the southern east direction from the nome,s capital Athribis (Egyptian: 𓉗𓏏𓉐𓇾𓁷𓄣𓊖). Middle Ages. The beginning of the prosperity of Saryaqos was in the middle ages, especially in the era of the Mamluk Sultanate 1323 AC, and it was mentioned in the manuscripts of the Egyptian historian Al-Maqrizi as he had said: And that khnaqah the historian Al-Maqrizi referred to was a center of Saryaqos and then people started calling it al khanka (Egyptian Arabic: الخانكة), but this khnaqah disappeared with the passage of time.and the historian Ibn Taghribirdi talked  about palaces that was located there in his book (Al-Nujum Al-Zahira Fi Muluk Misr Wa'l-Qahira) when he mentioned the Sultanate of Al-Nasir Muhammad Ibn Qalawun as he had said: Then Ibn Taghribirdi explained that the palaces were destroyed and became rubble due to the decay of construction in Saryaqos after the reign of the Sultan Al-Nasir Muhammad Ibn Qalawun. when he talked about the prince Soudon in his book (Al-Manhal) as he had said: Etymology. Saryaqos used to be named Samasem Saryaqos (Egyptian Arabic : سماسم سرياقوس‌ pronounced [sɑmaɑːsem sɑrjɑːʔoːs]) and there are no clear  known origin to the name of Saryaqos but there are some folk tales about the origin of the name, and the most widespread of them is a story that the Sultan Al-Nasir Muhammed Ibn Qalwun was motivating his horse, who was called (Qus), to walk, so he used to tell it (Arabic: سر يا قوس pronounced [sir jɑː quːs]) which means (Move on, Qus), but most likely that this story is not true, since the location of the village was called Saryaqos even before the rule of the Sultan Al-Nasir Muhammed Ibn Qalwun. There are also some villages  in Egypt whose name contains the syllable (Qos). Perhaps the name Saryaqos is a copy or a distortion of one of those names, but anyway this theory, like all other theories, remains without any evidence.