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Pages in category "People from Aswan" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Khalil Abdel-Karim;
Aswan is the ancient city of Swenett, later known as Syene, which in antiquity was the frontier town of Ancient Egypt facing the south. Swenett is supposed to have derived its name from an Egyptian goddess with the same name. [ 10 ]
Nubians have been resettled in large numbers (an estimated 50,000 people) away from Wadi Halfa North Sudan in to Khashm el Girba – Sudan and some moved to Southern Egypt since the 1960s, when the Aswan High Dam was built on the Nile, flooding ancestral lands. [56] Most Nubians nowadays work in Egyptian and Sudanese cities.
Aswan, located along the Nile on the southern frontier of Egypt, was was a major supplier of granite to the rest of the country for use in temples and pyramids.
Elephantine, or what ancient Egyptians called Yebu or Abu is located at the uppermost part of the Nile river that is a part of Aswan. [6] Elephantine had the first nome of the northern part of Egypt. [4]
The Mausoleum of Aga Khan is the mausoleum of Aga Khan III, Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, who died in 1957.The mausoleum is located at Aswan along the Nile of Egypt, since Egypt was formerly the centre of power of the Fatimids, an Ismaili Shia dynasty.
The Nubian Museum. The Nubian Museum (officially the International Museum of Nubia) is an archaeological museum located in Aswan, Upper Egypt.It was built following the UNESCO International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, to a design by architect Mahmoud El-Hakim for an estimated construction cost of E£75 million (approximately US$22 million at the time).
Nubia was divided between Egypt and Sudan after colonialism ended and the Republic of Egypt was established in 1953, and the Republic of Sudan seceded from Egypt in 1956. In the early-1970s, many Egyptian and Sudanese Nubians were forcibly relocated to make room for Lake Nasser after dams were constructed at Aswan . [ 167 ]